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[zan]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

[Tim Drayton]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

[zan]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

[Tim Drayton]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

[zan]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

Do you know if you can say the same for the GCs speaking Turkish???? I would say, not nearly as many......Shows who had the phobia!!!

[bill cobbett]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

I got a lift with a tissy taxi driver here in London a few months ago. A youngish chap, in his thirties, who had lived for years, 'til recently in Kyrenia Town. He spoke the Cy dialect perfectly.

Given the large number of Tr based words in the dialect, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but it did.

[zan]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

I got a lift with a tissy taxi driver here in London a few months ago. A youngish chap, in his thirties, who had lived for years, 'til recently in Kyrenia Town. He spoke the Cy dialect perfectly.

Given the large number of Tr based words in the dialect, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but it did.

Which one?????

[bill cobbett]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

Do you know if you can say the same for the GCs speaking Turkish???? I would say, not nearly as many......Shows who had the phobia!!!

My late Uncle (may he rest in peace), mixed 50/50 village in the Karpas, would often entertain us with his knowledge of tr.

[bill cobbett]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

I got a lift with a tissy taxi driver here in London a few months ago. A youngish chap, in his thirties, who had lived for years, 'til recently in Kyrenia Town. He spoke the Cy dialect perfectly.

Given the large number of Tr based words in the dialect, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but it did.

Which one?????

Axirtir mate!

[YFred]

Who said there was no such thing as Cypriotness? - Dryton

So how comes there is no common language !!!

Sorry Byron, but you have a very defective logic and I wouldn't recommend you to take an IQ test, as you will be very disappointed of the results. Who said to you that there must be a common language, for a country to exist as one unit to which all will feel allegiance to it? Does Switzerland have one common language? It has at least four, as a matter of fact! Don't they all feel Swiss, above all? Yes they do!

Are these OFFICIAL languages....

Yes, Switzerland has four official languages.

Then a bit different to the picture painted of TCs...Not all by he way...Speaking Greek because of convenience. We taught Turkish in our schools and not Greek...Those in mixed villages, like my father, spoke both....Those in the North of Lefkosa and purely TC, like my mum, did not.

I hear what you are saying, but a great many elderly Turkish Cypriots are very fluent in the Greek Cypriot vernacular.

I got a lift with a tissy taxi driver here in London a few months ago. A youngish chap, in his thirties, who had lived for years, 'til recently in Kyrenia Town. He spoke the Cy dialect perfectly.

Given the large number of Tr based words in the dialect, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but it did.

Which one?????

Axirtir mate!

Egames da mammurin re maymuni.