when I was studying Greek I would get frustrated and annoyed because often, at the beginning of a sentence or clause ā or just scattered haphazardly throughout ā there would be three or four āparticlesā with no specific meaning. the literal translation might be āso thus andā, but of course you couldnāt put that down. they were just placeholder words, colloquial linguistic padding.
now, of course, I realize that I start sentences with āokay but likeā.
you can sing the praises of the Greeks all you want, but the fact is, Plato wrote with all the elegance and grace of an off-the-cuff tumblr post.
