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[EPSILON]

kotsiron, what took ya so long...i missed ya... like a hole in the head ...oh and try breathing every minute as to not waste that precious air we all call oxygen... It's in short suppy

cut the crap, still waiting for proof of those figures you keep on quoting...where are they?

Lets see yours first

[EPSILON]

Unfortunately my English do not allow me to transfer the atmosphere and the pane included in the following article .I will try to give
,at least, the main meaning.

Article wrote by Mr Vahit Tursu (Greek speaking from Ofi Trapezone -Pontos). Article published on 11 Nov 07 in Radical -Turkish newspaper

"Growing up we started to wonder about our mother launguage and generally about our routes.Why we were speaking Romeika, in a country where they speak Turkish? Continuesly we had new questions about to -who we are-and from where we are coming.

Eevery one was trying to say something. Some were saying what hey heard from their parents and grand parents and some others had their own conclusions.But everytime we were coming to the conclusion hat we must have a relation with Romious and of course with Greece.

The most difficult question to be replied was whether we were the grandchilds of Greeks who became mouslims or the grandchilds of Turks who learned Romeika from Greeks?Our hild years passed with the above unreplied questions.

We were facing problems with our mother language even when we were travelling abroad.Every time we were speaking between us in Romeika the first question was "what language do you speak?"When we were eplying Romika we were receiving other questions and various reactions.

Slowly slowly we started to feel as second class people . Every time the discussion was about Greeks , the propaganta saying that Greeks are a nation of no pride and they are the enemy was making us to feel very sad.We were feeling very bad with the posibility above propaganta to be true and for us,at he time we are speaking a similar language. For this reason we stated to ide the true and every time someone was asking what language we are speaking we were saying "Lazika".

The problems we were facing with our mother language were completing with the movies in TV.When we were wathing movies which were related to fights between Byzantine and Turks or Greeks with Turks we were feeling very bad because always he Greeks were presented as the bad side. We had to take a decision who to support the bad Greeks or the honest Turks heroes.Our mother language was not allowed us to decide who o suppot.In such circustances we were living in psichological situations which human beings never had in the history.

Watching the movie we were supporting the Turks heroes but we were felling guildy for this.As an effort to hide this phichological situation we were trying to express much more hapiness for the heroic Turks trying to show this in our face at he im our mind was guiding us to the opposite direction.

TODAY

Today, the Grek speaking population of Pontos which was pressed between the love to its mother language and to one difficult id can not survive.Already many of us started to teach Turkish to their childs as from their berth .In adition the racist propaganta which recently increased is near to demolish one whole nation with an ncient civilization. When a civilization is dissapear this mean a population is dessapear . Who will pay for this crime-I do not know."

THIS WAS THE ARTICLE.I DEDICATE SAME TO THESE WHO TO NOT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE TO BE GREEK OF CYPRUS AND NOT A SIMPLE CYPRIOT.


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GREEK REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS

[boomerang]

kotsiron, what took ya so long...i missed ya... like a hole in the head ...oh and try breathing every minute as to not waste that precious air we all call oxygen... It's in short suppy

cut the crap, still waiting for proof of those figures you keep on quoting...where are they?

Lets see yours first

Kostiron, you got a short memory, maybe you've been sitting on your brain for too long...I ain't the one quoting the 85% ...you were...

All I asked, where did you get those figures, unless you pulled them out of your ass...

either prove it or retract, you chose...got it?

[LENA]

Epsilon...if the language is what makes your Nationality then we are Cypriots and not Greeks.

I speak in Cypriot dialect which has words from French, English, Greek, Turkish and I dont know which other language.

Greek is the official language among the English and the Turkish in Cyprus.

The Greek speaking of Pontos, transfer their language from generation to generation as we done for the Cypriot dialect as well.

Do you want to change us as Turks wanted to change the language of the Greek speaking people of Pontos?


By the way boomerang...you are not sick of swearing all the times?

[Nikitas]

Lena,

It might surprise you to learn that mainland Greeks use more turkish words in their day to day talk than us Cypriots. To give a few examples- cardasi, dugru, peskesi, rousfeti, mousafiris, batzanakis and the list goes on.

Cypriot dialect is probably "cleaner" in terms of using foreign words than mainland Greek. Still cannot forget the mechanic who told me that the word clutch is not Greek, that the proper word is "brayaz" (which is French but he did not know). He pronounced slowly as if he was talking to an idiot child. Schweinhundt!

[LENA]

Lena,

It might surprise you to learn that mainland Greeks use more turkish words in their day to day talk than us Cypriots. To give a few examples- cardasi, dugru, peskesi, rousfeti, mousafiris, batzanakis and the list goes on.

Cypriot dialect is probably "cleaner" in terms of using foreign words than mainland Greek. Still cannot forget the mechanic who told me that the word clutch is not Greek, that the proper word is "brayaz" (which is French but he did not know). He pronounced slowly as if he was talking to an idiot child. Schweinhundt!

Yes Nikita that doesnt surprise me at all!

[boomerang]

kostiron..bou epies re?...ehathikes re mousoupetti...

still waiting for those 85% stats...

I will give some advice little fella, when you talk the talk, you must walk the walk...

and Lena who the hell is swearing?

[LENA]

kostiron..bou epies re?...ehathikes re mousoupetti...

still waiting for those 85% stats...

I will give some advice little fella, when you talk the talk, you must walk the walk...

and Lena who the hell is swearing? :lol:

You and a lot!

[boomerang]

me?...are you sure?...when?

[LENA]

me?...are you sure?...when?