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Thanks, [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 10:49, 20 June 2011 (EDT)
Thanks, [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 10:49, 20 June 2011 (EDT)
== Thoughts ==
I don't know much Greek, but I do know a little Russian. That language has a word 'же' which seems in principle rather similar to this Greek word - it's an emphatic particle, which adds emphasis to the word it follows. In a context like 'где же август?', 'exactly' would be a very good translation - idiomatically - of 'же': 'where *exactly* is August?'. This seems rather parallel to the controversial case of ιδου. Perhaps my ignorance of Greek means I've missed some obvious flaw in this comparison... [[User:Jcw|Jcw]] 13:11, 20 June 2011 (EDT)