Gerard,

You’re mistaken. 

https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Philosophers-Stone-Ancient/dp/1408866161/

There are learners and readers and writers of Ancient Greek who do not just 
want to “understand old documents"

> On 7 Feb 2017, at 05:36, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hoi,
> The point of teaching GRC is to help understand the old documents in GRC. As 
> it is not a living language the point is that students learn it as it was. 
> Innovation is therefore counter to the objective of teaching the language. 
> Compare this to Latin; the same applies but it has always been spoken / used 
> in the Roman Catholic church so it is a language where documents can be found 
> in Latin that are from many later centuries and it does have this history of 
> innovation.



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