Wow thank you! Yes this does help! A few follow-up questions. For your point #1: are these pronunciations captured in your BLC Greek course? I'm currently going through it :) Could you also give me an example of one of these "palatization of velars"? I am very new to linguistic and phonetic terms. For your point #2: Why did you both choose to do this?
Thank you for clearing up the differences in your two approaches. That was amazing. In your first conclusion paragraph, you say he is closer to the "higher register" and you're closer to the "colloquial innovative register". I've watched a few of Luke's videos, I heard him say that he was trying to create a more universal pronunciation that could cover a very broad time range - perhaps classical all the way to (late?) Koine. Does it seem to you like the goal of his "Lucian" pronunciation is to create a dialect that a time traveler could use and have a high probability that anyone speaking Greek from the 5th century BCE to the 5th century CE would understand? In contrast, would you say that your approach is more to capture the "popular-level Koine of the 1st century CE" that would propagate into later centuries? By the way, do you have a name for your pronunciation system, since it differs slightly from Buth's?
Also I've watched Luke's "Lucian" pronunciation video and I find a lot of his arguments compelling (from my near-zero experience... ha!). If I learn Koine Greek using your system and materials (which I am currently doing!), how easy do you think it is to switch my pronunciation in the future if desired?
