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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)
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)
:Many languages use such particles, and different ones in different times: There is no ἰδού in [[Homer]]'s [[Iliad]] for instance (the use of ἰδού in the [[Gospel]]s shows an Aramaic influence). I argued earlier that ''wow'' fulfills a similar function in todays spoken English, but I would not say that ἰδού and ''wow'' (or же) are interchangeable.
:[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 11:18, 21 June 2011 (EDT)