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by **Get Real!** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:26 pm

denizaksulu wrote:Get Real, dont you get any sleep? You have to get up early and go to church, remember?

Sleep? What is that?

Anything between 4 and 6 hours is plenty for me Deniz.

by **zan** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:27 pm

Thats all you are allowed hanging upside down in a cave.

Only joking GR :lol:

by **Get Real!** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:28 pm

zan wrote:Thats all you are allowed hanging upside down in a cave.

Screech... Screech... where have them bloody moths gone? :lol:

by **zan** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:30 pm

by **Get Real!** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:32 pm

I think the moral of this thread is that when you want to have all the fun yourself you end up not getting any... ain't that right Kifeas?

by **zan** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:36 pm

Now that deserves: :lol:

by **BirKibrisli** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:08 pm

I propose Kikapu and myself as expert witnesses... :lol:

I am ready to appear for either side...First come first serve... :lol:

by **denizaksulu** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:28 pm

Thanks GR, but I am 100% sure my grandmother used the word fanos (whilst speaking Turkish Cypriote) to describe the glass funnel on the night lamp. Our village did not have electricity when we lived there. I use that word "fanos" loosely to mean source of light. It did sound greek to me. Does "Fanos" or "fanus" mean anything to you in the "cypriote" language. I did know "Faros" as one of the seven wonders of the world. Now I am wondering if the word "fanos" or "fanus" is derived from arabic. I will have to check.

by **denizaksulu** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:44 pm

I cheched it out. not everyword that ends in ....os is greek. Fanos was derived from the arabic meaning lantern. Knowledge and languages are so wonderful. When I started the secondary school in Lefkosia they decided to withdraw the teaching of Greek from the curriculum. What short-sightedness.

by **Get Real!** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:57 pm

denizaksulu wrote:Thanks GR, but I am 100% sure my grandmother used the word fanos (whilst speaking Turkish Cypriote) to describe the glass funnel on the night lamp. Our village did not have electricity when we lived there. I use that word "fanos" loosely to mean source of light. It did sound greek to me. Does "Fanos" or "fanus" mean anything to you in the "cypriote" language. I did know "Faros" as one of the seven wonders of the world. Now I am wondering if the word "fanos" or "fanus" is derived from arabic. I will have to check.

Yes, the glass part is called "Fanó Thiellis" so your memory served you well

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