The Greek Language Lesson Transcript

[sitifan]

[00:00:01] Well, good morning. I'm Dr. Death. Welcome to Greek Finance Week. The days I'll have the wheelbarrows and the aisles going up and down saying, Bring out your dead now. Welcome to Greek. My name is Dr. Mounts, otherwise known as Bill. (original transcript provided in the link below)
Source: https://www.biblicaltraining.org/learn/institute/nt201-biblical-greek/nt201-01-the-greek-language
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Well, good morning. I'm Dr. Death. Welcome to Greek. By next week I'll have the wheelbarrows in the aisles going up and down saying, Bring out your dead now. Welcome to Greek. My name is Dr. Mounce, otherwise known as Bill. (My own dictation.)

What does the sentence in bold mean?

 

[Tarheel]

It doesn't seem to mean anything, does it?

 

[emsr2d2]

The first version makes no sense at all with "wheelbarrows and the aisles". The second (your "dictation") is at least grammatical. I think it's an allusion to the Bubonic Plague in Europe (the "Black Death") when so many people were dying that there were people with wheelbarrows and wagons who went up and down the streets shouting "Bring out your dead!" The families of the deceased would carry their dead relative out and throw them in the barrow/wagon to be taken away and disposed of.
What that has to do with Greek Finance Week I have absolutely no idea!

 

[Tarheel]

@emsr2d2 I didn't know that story about the bubonic plague, but (as you said) I don't see how it's relevant to the other thing at all.