Thanks, everyone. I now know what I’m going to do. I have gathered a basketful of advice and wisdom from here and from Facebook and am grateful to everyone. Chris Childers and Alicia Stallings have added their advice and John Psaropoulos, too. The upshot? I can go with my instinct without abusing my freedom.
What I wanted was what “you” would “say”, and I was aware that ancient and modern Greek are very different beasts. The shadow across the page was a memory of an edition of a long-running wireless programme here in the UK, called “In Our Time”, whose host, Melvyn Bragg, presents himself as a sort of honest Everyman, asking expert opinions on “deep” or historically controversial subjects. In one edition they addressed the subject of the Soul and the poet Ruth Padel kept mentioning the “Psoo-hay” and MB felt the need to ask if she might not say “Sykie” like the rest of us.
The programme is broadcast in the morning as a live 45 minute discussion and this is edited down to 30 for an evening repeat. The podcasts are also 30. I have a feeling Melvyn’s tetchy prod will not have been preserved, but I will never forget hearing it and the resolve I made that day.
Bless you all.
|