https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks I was not aware that he’d died. I was even less aware of the conspiracy theories about his death. I’d come across his books when I was looking at Arvanitika for my linguistics thesis. (My stuff on Balkan language contact ended up left out of the thesis, but I’m grateful for the opportunity to […]
Greeks got him from Turks; he’s much bigger, I noticed, in Cyprus than in Greece. I don’t know enough to compare with Nasreddin in Muslim countries, but in Greek accounts he’s a promulgator of often absurdist folk wisdom. “The argument over the mattress” is a journalistic cliché in Greece. The argument over the mattress? Glad […]
Originally Answered: What expression from your language would English speakers find really funny if translated word for word? Ah, you remind me of the Golden Treasury of Greek-English expressions: we have not seen him yet, and we have removed him John I posted an analyses of a few of these on my Greek linguistics blog […]
Greek. Heptanesian dialect, which is rather close to Standard Modern Greek. A hundred years ago, Judeo-Italian and Judaeo-Greek. Two hundred years ago, Italian (Venetian) among the nobility. I’ve seen no evidence of Albanian ever spoken in Corfu. Answered 2016-10-17 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-languages-and-dialects-are-spoken-in-Corfu/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]
Any Goddess of Barley in Greek would be named for the Greek for barley: alphi. That derives from proto-Indo-European *albhi- , and Albanian elp is a cognate. Albion is the Celtic name of Britain, which survives as the Gaelic for Scotland, Alba. Its cognates are Welsh elfydd < *elbid ‘world, land’ and Gaulish albio– ‘world’. […]
Braille – Wikipedia; English Braille – Wikipedia; Unified English Braille – Wikipedia Braille is an encoding of alphabets; since the alphabetic repertoire is going to be different within Roman script, let alone other alphabets, there will be differences in the repertoire. Not all Braille alphabets will have a W, or a É, or a Ч. […]
Well, as Zeibura S. Kathau has commented, Science is by nature descriptive. And linguistics is a science. A very soft science, I’ll grant you, but no less of one than geology or astronomy. There’s a word for fields of study that say how things should be, rather than how things are. That word is not […]
When I was lecturing historical linguistics, I addressed this notion as follows: “Just picture the 19th century German linguist, captured by cannibals and boiling away in a cauldron, saying: [German accent] ‘Hah! Zis is ein joke! You people are all pussies! You do not even haff ein alveolar affrikat!’” And beware of cause and effect […]
Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges : §1876 on οὗτος μὲν γὰρ ὕδωρ, ἐγὼ δ᾽ οἶνον πίνω for this man drinks water, whereas I drink wine. (habitual) ἄγει δὲ πρὸς φῶς τὴν ἀλήθειαν χρόνος “time brings the truth to light” (gnomic) “προδίδοτον τὴν Ἑλλάδα” they are trying to betray Greece (conative = attempt: […]
http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/314706?bookid=783&amp;location=1659 Thank you very much, OP, for providing the link. This is in fact the same letter as that other one you provided, Can modern day Greeks understand and read ancient scriptures in ancient ruins (Like this one?) Since you’ve provided a clean transcription I don’t have to squint at, happy to do it: King […]