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[denizaksulu]

Friday afternoon, MRI scan.

I'm glad you took my advise...

Did you mean 'advice'?

What ever is happening to your English

[Oracle]

I am still the only undisputed pure horkatos Cypriot with an undeniable continuous link with the ancient Choirokitians!

Beat that!

What!!!

I was born in one of the most backward villages of Cyprus, whilst the Brits bombed us!

You live in a suburb of Nicosia!

How does that compare?

Yeah, but I was born on the back of a donkey while two donkey riders got off and started arguing over how many scales their bostani run down a shakadouri!

Beat that!

EOKA were worrying the Brits, so they fire-bombed the Paphos Forest. My Greek mum run into an ancient Choirokitian prototype cave and gave birth to me whilst screaming for Makarios' blessing. My dad killed a Turkey to celebrate!

(99% Cypriot true!)

[denizaksulu]

I am still the only undisputed pure horkatos Cypriot with an undeniable continuous link with the ancient Choirokitians!

Beat that!

What!!!

I was born in one of the most backward villages of Cyprus, whilst the Brits bombed us!

You live in a suburb of Nicosia!

How does that compare?

Yeah, but I was born on the back of a donkey while two donkey riders got off and started arguing over how many scales their bostani run down a shakadouri!

Beat that!

EOKA were worrying the Brits, so they fire-bombed the Paphos Forest. My Greek mum run into an ancient Choirokitian prototype cave and gave birth to me whilst screaming for Makarios' blessing. My dad killed a Turkey to celebrate!

(99% Cypriot true!)

Now I see why Turkey napalmed you (or tried to).

[Filitsa]

Hooray ... Filitsa is here!

Our resident English Language teacher ...

What the haeal are you on about, Oracle?

BTW, the "L" in language needn't be capitalized.

[georgios100]

I think we have just witnessed confirmation that georgios100 is truly GC ...

(Or, so clever that he deserves to be! )

Tora to katalaves koritsi mou... kalio arga para pote, evharisto poli.

[Nikitas]

The correct form would be Fourkastos, the noun being Fourka which has a mainland Greek equivalent Fouria, meaning rush, temper or furious with which it is cognate.

A good example of mainland Greek usage is the rebetiko song by Tsitsanis, I litania tou manga:

"Kai na sou o arhangelos se mia megali FOURIA, ap'ta doumania ta polla ton epiase i mastoura"

The archangel was angry because the dudes had decided to carry out the "litany" in church.

The origin of the word is likely to be Latin, and I am guessing that it comes frem the same root as the Italian "furioso".

On the other hand it could be pure Choirokitian and I am totally wrong.

[Nikitas]

Georgie,

Varoshiotis from which part of town? I lived acros the Old Syntechnies. Alexandrou street 8.

[insan]

The correct form would be Fourkastos, the noun being Fourka which has a mainland Greek equivalent Fouria, meaning rush, temper or furious with which it is cognate.

A good example of mainland Greek usage is the rebetiko song by Tsitsanis, I litania tou manga:

"Kai na sou o arhangelos se mia megali FOURIA, ap'ta doumania ta polla ton epiase i mastoura"

The archangel was angry because the dudes had decided to carry out the "litany" in church.

The origin of the word is likely to be Latin, and I am guessing that it comes frem the same root as the Italian "furioso".

On the other hand it could be pure Choirokitian and I am totally wrong.

Hmmm... It sounds like a Turkish word that means "rush" ..

http://tureng.com/search/furya

[insan]

Here's a couple of nice CY words ... jebee .... or boungah........ for pocket.

At least think they're CY and not gr. (??)

Hmmm... jebee? Yet another word sounds like Turkish...

http://tureng.com/search/cep

How "cep" became jebee, hellim became Halloumi...

[Nikitas]

"Hell hath known no FURY like the rage of a woman scorned" wrote Shakespeare. Odd as it may sound Fourkastos is from the same Latin root as Fury, Furia. Modern usage in Greek is plainly Italianate in sound and form: "fouriosos" meaning the exact same as Fourkastos.

So now we have a quandary, did we get it from the east or the west. My bet is on the west considering the Latin root and current usage of derivatives of cognate words in most Romance languages (those derived from Latin).