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Day: February 9, 2017

What’s the history of monotonic Greek orthography (plus other things like the combined OY)?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

Gott sei dank! This is going to be fun! Ligatures OK, I’ll dispense with the “other things” (ligatures) quickly, referencing my own page Other Ligatures There was a mess of ligatures in Greek typography up until the 18th century, because Greek typography was based on late Byzantine squiggle. (That’s why typographers sigh at what might […]

What is the history of the Soviet Greek language?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

Indeed, as Basil Lucas has noticed, I did look into the history of Soviet Greek a few years ago, although the primary research was hardly mine: it was the Greek historian Vlasis Agtzidis’. This is a summary of the history, although Basil’s answer gives plenty more detail (and so does my blog): The Greek spoken […]

Can you recall a particular text that ignited your love of literature?

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Posted in categories: Literature, Modern Greek

You merit of me, Anya of Lincoln, an answer with a gem in it. A shard of Sappho, perhaps. But that was in my thirties. An artfully naive ballad of Heine’s. But that was in my twenties. The children’s poetry of C. J. Dennis. I remember the LP I somehow got of him when I […]