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[Filitsa]

I think Oracle maybe watching a bit of Fry and Laurie. It sounds just up her street. UKTV Gold/109

I don't watch TV Deniz ....

I have been stuck in the study with paperwork for the last two hours. Now I need to go and feed a neighbour's cats ....

Shouldn't you be packing?

All ready my dear Which do you prefer, English Honeysuckle or Cypriot Feslegen, Festigan, Fesliga, Sweet Basil. (All the same)?

The English Honeysuckle I equate with Cypriot Jasmine ...

I love both, but Jasmine I have outside my constantly open window in Cyprus, and even though my window is open here in the UK ... it is too high up from the scent of the garden Honeysuckle .....

But Vassilikia (Basil) is something else for the senses altogether ....

Get ready to be re-born Deniz!

Your Greek does suck! It's "vasiliko."

Psindri Vasilikia mou ....

(As I said ... not as much as yours )

Are we talking about song titles or herbs, Oracle? Well, at least, you recognized your spelling error.

Do you have definite rules for Greeklish spelling of Kybriaka?

Methinks you are grasping at straws now ...

"Kybriaka." How do you spell that with Greek letters, Oracle?

[Oracle]

I think Oracle maybe watching a bit of Fry and Laurie. It sounds just up her street. UKTV Gold/109

I don't watch TV Deniz ....

I have been stuck in the study with paperwork for the last two hours. Now I need to go and feed a neighbour's cats ....

Shouldn't you be packing?

All ready my dear Which do you prefer, English Honeysuckle or Cypriot Feslegen, Festigan, Fesliga, Sweet Basil. (All the same)?

The English Honeysuckle I equate with Cypriot Jasmine ...

I love both, but Jasmine I have outside my constantly open window in Cyprus, and even though my window is open here in the UK ... it is too high up from the scent of the garden Honeysuckle .....

But Vassilikia (Basil) is something else for the senses altogether ....

Get ready to be re-born Deniz!

Your Greek does suck! It's "vasiliko."

Psindri Vasilikia mou ....

(As I said ... not as much as yours )

Are we talking about song titles or herbs, Oracle? Well, at least, you recognized your spelling error.

Do you have definite rules for Greeklish spelling of Kybriaka?

Methinks you are grasping at straws now ...

"Kybriaka." How do you spell that with Greek letters, Oracle?

Well according to my "Intelligently Designed" Greeklish translator which allows for the Cypriot dialect (especially from my village ), it is simply

Κυπριακά

But Filitsa I get the impression you are missing Get Real! and that daily dose of ..... "egg on your face"

or should that be....

αυγό στα μούτρα σου

or it could even be ....

αυγό στο πρόσωπον σου

but I'll opt for ...

αυγό στην φάτσα σου



(Nitpick to your heart's desire )

[Filitsa]

I prefer "φατσα" ...

... as in ...

"Una fatsa, una ratsa!"

[Oracle]

I prefer "φατσα" ...

... as in ...

"Una fatsa, una ratsa!"

My dad always used to say that about Italians (bearing no grudges that they kept him as a POW in WWII, and causing him to lose half his stomach to an op.).

Yet when I've suggested this to Italians, they actually do not consider themselves as similar to us

[Filitsa]

I prefer "φατσα" ...

... as in ...

"Una fatsa, una ratsa!"

My dad always used to say that about Italians (bearing no grudges that they kept him as a POW in WWII, and causing him to lose half his stomach to an op.).

Yet when I've suggested this to Italians, they actually do not consider themselves as similar to us

That's because it's our ratsa and not theirs that we're referring to. Posers!

[Oracle]

I prefer "φατσα" ...

... as in ...

"Una fatsa, una ratsa!"

My dad always used to say that about Italians (bearing no grudges that they kept him as a POW in WWII, and causing him to lose half his stomach to an op.).

Yet when I've suggested this to Italians, they actually do not consider themselves as similar to us

That's because it's our ratsa and not theirs that we're referring to. Posers!

They should feel privileged we would deem to include them in our ratsa ..... the bottom-pinching mamma's boys and pasta swilling mafia-sucking winos

[Oracle]

Before this thread is buried in the archives, I just want to add how grateful I am to the English for breeding the likes of Charles Darwin.

He couldn't have done it on his own, and he was a great respecter of the Greeks, especially Aristotle and his cataloguing methods of flora and fauna which gave him the tools by which he formulated his then hypothesis .... now Theory of Evolution.

[Mr. T]

Back to the original question......................

The jet engine
The internet (not an American invention as most think)
The hovercraft
The list is huge and even now about 40% of all inventions

A large proportion of medical advances saving millions of lives and making others more bearable

[Talisker]

Englishness: An innate, and unjustified, superiority complex.

Scottishness: An innate, and unjustified, inferiority complex about the English innate, and unjustified, superiority complex.

[Oracle]

Clotted Cream Fudge ....