This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bible, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Bible on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BibleWikipedia:WikiProject BibleTemplate:WikiProject BibleBible articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Christianity, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Christianity on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ChristianityWikipedia:WikiProject ChristianityTemplate:WikiProject ChristianityChristianity articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LiteratureWikipedia:WikiProject LiteratureTemplate:WikiProject LiteratureLiterature articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Judaism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Judaism-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.JudaismWikipedia:WikiProject JudaismTemplate:WikiProject JudaismJudaism articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philosophy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of content related to philosophy on Wikipedia. If you would like to support the project, please visit the project page, where you can get more details on how you can help, and where you can join the general discussion about philosophy content on Wikipedia.PhilosophyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilosophyTemplate:WikiProject PhilosophyPhilosophy articles
This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.
Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
@UndercoverClassicist: I think the acute accent should be retained here. Although there was a pitch accent (probably in decline) at the time of Paul's writing, two considerations bring me to believe in using the acute for this article. First, while tonal markers such as the circumflex are usually absent from transliterations, the acute, for whatever reason, is usually retained, at least in the linguistics literature. Second, WP:GREEK, particularly WP:GREEK § Tagging with the lang template, shows retention of the acute, but the other tonal markers are removed in WP:GREEK § Common Latinizations. Let me know what you think. ThaesOfereode (talk) 22:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hm -- honestly, I don't see clear guidance in WP:GREEK on the matter of transliterating accents -- only examples, which if you look across FAs and so on vary quite substantially. I don't think the fact that they have written e.g. phílos allows us to differentiate "accents should be used" from "accents may be used" and "use accents only in particular situations". Frankly, I'd be surprised if whoever wrote that note knew much about diacritics and accent in Ancient Greek, even assuming they are expert in modern Greek. In classical and theological literature, as far as I've read, you practically never see accents or macrons in transliteration, and my sense is that this article is closer to those fields than to linguistics. I wouldn't be terribly upset to see the accents come back, but at the moment I don't think they should. UndercoverClassicistT·C06:23, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
