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Day: March 30, 2010

GTAGE: Screw you and your car jack!

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek
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Language and slang.gr advisory Greeks on email have inevitably received at least twice joke emails that feature Greek phrases literally translated into English, to hilarious effect. (For moderate to small values of “hilarious”.) The humour lies in the fact that the Greek phrases are idioms, which cannot be translated literally, or that English and Greek […]

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