Archive:

Day: August 9, 2017

What does the following phrase that I heard several times in central Greece mean, “tha paw na koitasthw” (“θα παω να κοιτασθω”)?

By: | Post date: 2017-08-09 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

Dimitris Sotiropoulos reports in his answer that in some areas of Central Greece, this means “I will go to bed”. The normal meaning of the verb in modern Greek is “to look”, but the current accepted etymology of the verb is indeed from an ancient Greek verb for “to lie down”. This was not always […]

In what ways are Albanians in Greece mistreated?

By: | Post date: 2017-08-09 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture, Modern Greek

My answer to this is a historical anecdote, but the quite informative answers here do talk about what happened in the 1990s, as well as what’s happening now. The reports now are that Albanians are on the top of the totem pole of immigrant privilege. They are of course still below Western Europeans, who are […]