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[denizaksulu]

Both, just a point thou ancient Greek is not that much different to modern Greek.

Doesn't that suggest the Greeks have not developed culturally from the days sikandra the terrible.

No, you moron!

It indicates that Greek is a superior and highly developed language .... as countless British Classical historians would testify!

We don't have to re-invent ourselves like the redundant Turks!

How can you improve on perfection ... which is the Ancient Greek language

I need some help here Oracle.

We have two languages,

Ancient Greek

and Modern Greek.

There must be a difference to be called 'ancient' and 'modern'. We know they DO differ however slightly, so the language has either 'developed' or 'taken a retro step=backwards. So which is it?

Don't ask such tricky questions, if it was perfect to start with, it can only go one way. I look forward to its eradication from the face of the earth.
What percentage of people talk it? 0.00000000000000000000000000001%?

Hello O,,ooops its 'jack in the box ' again. The use and understanding of both is invaluable. A Lurucadi should understand that. How else would we have learnt of the ancient glory Sikender and the ancients.? Todays taxonomy depends in its entirety on Greek and Latin. It is due to these that we know we are Homo sapiens and not just hymenopteras.

[YFred]

Both, just a point thou ancient Greek is not that much different to modern Greek.

Doesn't that suggest the Greeks have not developed culturally from the days sikandra the terrible.

No, you moron!

It indicates that Greek is a superior and highly developed language .... as countless British Classical historians would testify!

We don't have to re-invent ourselves like the redundant Turks!

How can you improve on perfection ... which is the Ancient Greek language

I need some help here Oracle.

We have two languages,

Ancient Greek

and Modern Greek.

There must be a difference to be called 'ancient' and 'modern'. We know they DO differ however slightly, so the language has either 'developed' or 'taken a retro step=backwards. So which is it?

Don't ask such tricky questions, if it was perfect to start with, it can only go one way. I look forward to its eradication from the face of the earth.
What percentage of people talk it? 0.00000000000000000000000000001%?

Hello O,,ooops its 'jack in the box ' again. The use and understanding of both is invaluable. A Lurucadi should understand that. How else would we have learnt of the ancient glory Sikender and the ancients.? Todays taxonomy depends in its entirety on Greek and Latin. It is due to these that we know we are Homo sapiens and not just hymenopteras.

But Deniz, all that has been translated, not lost. In any case you can be a homo sapien, I like to think that I am a hetro sapien. I leave all the homo stuff to the people of Lesbos and the ones from there who migrated to cyprus.

[denizaksulu]

Both, just a point thou ancient Greek is not that much different to modern Greek.

Doesn't that suggest the Greeks have not developed culturally from the days sikandra the terrible.

No, you moron!

It indicates that Greek is a superior and highly developed language .... as countless British Classical historians would testify!

We don't have to re-invent ourselves like the redundant Turks!

How can you improve on perfection ... which is the Ancient Greek language

I need some help here Oracle.

We have two languages,

Ancient Greek

and Modern Greek.

There must be a difference to be called 'ancient' and 'modern'. We know they DO differ however slightly, so the language has either 'developed' or 'taken a retro step=backwards. So which is it?

Don't ask such tricky questions, if it was perfect to start with, it can only go one way. I look forward to its eradication from the face of the earth.
What percentage of people talk it? 0.00000000000000000000000000001%?

Hello O,,ooops its 'jack in the box ' again. The use and understanding of both is invaluable. A Lurucadi should understand that. How else would we have learnt of the ancient glory Sikender and the ancients.? Todays taxonomy depends in its entirety on Greek and Latin. It is due to these that we know we are Homo sapiens and not just hymenopteras.

But Deniz, all that has been translated, not lost. In any case you can be a homo sapien, I like to think that I am a hetro sapien. I leave all the homo stuff to the people of Lesbos and the ones from there who migrated to cyprus.

Why is it that you always prove Oracle right. Had you known a bit of Latin/Greek you would not have made that statement.

I think you need to go to the local Greek School in...........where do you live ? somewhere - on - sea was it. They are sure to have a Sunday school.

[repulsewarrior]

indeed, we have so much to learn from the languages past. relics they may be, like the stones and other things that have survived, alive because of the care they receive.

their importance to all Mankind remains as yet untold, still a quest to understand ourselves. great People realise this, and in Cyprus we hold the responsilbility of our stewardship toward a Heritance of singular importance thusly.

beyond the testimony ancient words tell, the Human race thrives from diversity, that our efforts, language, art, and architecture, no matter how old, adds to the fountain of wealth that gives us life, called knowledge.

[Oracle]

But Deniz, all that has been translated, not lost. In any case you can be a homo sapien, I like to think that I am a hetro sapien. I leave all the homo stuff to the people of Lesbos and the ones from there who migrated to cyprus.

Why is it that you always prove Oracle right. Had you known a bit of Latin/Greek you would not have made that statement.

I think you need to go to the local Greek School in...........where do you live ? somewhere - on - sea was it. They are sure to have a Sunday school.

You are a true scholar Deniz. But are you ready (broadminded enough) to accept the fact that learning Ancient Greek, if one had to make the choice between the two, would give you the superior linguistic advantage?

[denizaksulu]

But Deniz, all that has been translated, not lost. In any case you can be a homo sapien, I like to think that I am a hetro sapien. I leave all the homo stuff to the people of Lesbos and the ones from there who migrated to cyprus.

Why is it that you always prove Oracle right. Had you known a bit of Latin/Greek you would not have made that statement.

I think you need to go to the local Greek School in...........where do you live ? somewhere - on - sea was it. They are sure to have a Sunday school.

You are a true scholar Deniz. But are you ready (broadminded enough) to accept the fact that learning Ancient Greek, if one had to make the choice between the two, would give you the superior linguistic advantage?

Stop taking the p... Oracle!
Apart from being able to read the classics in their original form, No. Advantage over who? I dont belong to any literary circle to be able to have discourses like Alcibiades. Its uses today are a tad limited. A dictionary will do fine. If I had the choice, I would stick to modern day Greek (pref. the Cypriot version). Had I studied law, then I might have stuck to Latin though.

[YFred]

But Deniz, all that has been translated, not lost. In any case you can be a homo sapien, I like to think that I am a hetro sapien. I leave all the homo stuff to the people of Lesbos and the ones from there who migrated to cyprus.

Why is it that you always prove Oracle right. Had you known a bit of Latin/Greek you would not have made that statement.

I think you need to go to the local Greek School in...........where do you live ? somewhere - on - sea was it. They are sure to have a Sunday school.

You are a true scholar Deniz. But are you ready (broadminded enough) to accept the fact that learning Ancient Greek, if one had to make the choice between the two, would give you the superior linguistic advantage?

If I ever come across some paper with ancient greek on it, I dare not tell you what I would do with it in case our O gets upset. But it does have a hygienic use. When I first came to England and trying to learn English and the usual subjects, I refused to do Latin on the grounds that it would be difficult to be taught Latin in English when my English was/is nonexistent. In any case as you said it is a language for lawyers and they are all liars, and as I had no such aspirations, the choice was made.

I have no time to waste to learn a dead language with all its contents translated to modern language. I leave that the the hopeless few who learn it and do the translation for us.

[yialousa1971]

Both, just a point thou ancient Greek is not that much different to modern Greek.

Doesn't that suggest the Greeks have not developed culturally from the days sikandra the terrible.

No, you moron!

It indicates that Greek is a superior and highly developed language .... as countless British Classical historians would testify!

We don't have to re-invent ourselves like the redundant Turks!

How can you improve on perfection ... which is the Ancient Greek language

Latin come from Greek.

We behave like the Poseidonians in the Tyrrhenian Gulf, who although of Greek origin, became barbarized as Tyrrehenian or Romans and changed their speech and the customs of their ancestors. But they observe one Greek festival even to this day; during this they gather together and call up from memory their ancient names and customs, and then, lamenting loudly to each other and weeping, they go away. Athenaios (fl. c. 200 A.D.) Deipnosophistai, Book 14, 31A (632)]