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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby CBBB » Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:27 pm

kurupetos wrote:
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Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.


Aren't kolokasi and poulles the same thing?

Poulles is young kolokasi. :wink:


I know, I like them young, don't like the old ones!
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Get Real! » Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:00 pm

kurupetos wrote:
CBBB wrote:
Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.


Aren't kolokasi and poulles the same thing?

Poulles is young kolokasi. :wink:

Boulles re poulli!
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby kurupetos » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:55 pm

Get Real! wrote:
kurupetos wrote:
CBBB wrote:
Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.


Aren't kolokasi and poulles the same thing?

Poulles is young kolokasi. :wink:

Boulles re poulli!

Sorry, I am not familiar with the Charlo-Choirokitian syllabary. :oops:
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Get Real! » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:55 pm

kurupetos wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
kurupetos wrote:
CBBB wrote:
Nikitas wrote:The man is talking about colodjia, kolokasi and poulles. All are edible.

Aren't kolokasi and poulles the same thing?

Poulles is young kolokasi. :wink:

Boulles re poulli!

Sorry, I am not familiar with the Charlo-Choirokitian syllabary. :oops:

That’s another problem with Spartan wannabes… they can never figure out the difference between a “b” and a “p”, or a “t” and a “d”… most likely due to the Greek language’s shortcomings of only having one letter for each case! :)
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby bill cobbett » Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:55 pm

The issue of course is in the standardisation of writing Greek using the Latin alphabet, which prob does make poules correct using the system.

... but it isn't a system of pronunciation for native English speakers where boules would be more appropo... (though not much good if you're French).

Do seem to recall that GR did promise us to work on a system for writing Choirokitian for English-speakers ages ago.
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby kurupetos » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:49 pm

Get Real! wrote:That’s another problem with Spartan wannabes… they can never figure out the difference between a “b” and a “p”, or a “t” and a “d”… most likely due to the Greek language’s shortcomings of only having one letter for each case! :)

That's probably the reason boy... I wish I were born a Shiros... err Choirokitian like you. :lol:
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby kurupetos » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:50 pm

bill cobbett wrote:Do seem to recall that GR did promise us to work on a system for writing Choirokitian for English-speakers ages ago.

You may have to wait a few more centuries for that... :?
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:50 am

kurupetos wrote:I wish I were born a Shiros...

:idea: You can always move to a pig sty in Orounda.
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:57 am

bill cobbett wrote:Do seem to recall that GR did promise us to work on a system for writing Choirokitian for English-speakers ages ago.

I managed to find and install Choirokitian character sets for Ms Office and started playing with the idea of Greek to Choirokitian translation etc, when I realized it’s a bigger project than I had time for so it’s on the backburner… :)

Btw, on a similar note I did post here a HTML for Latin Greeklish to Greek converter! 8)
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Re: What are these vegetables?

Postby Sotos » Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:23 am

Get Real! wrote:
bill cobbett wrote:Do seem to recall that GR did promise us to work on a system for writing Choirokitian for English-speakers ages ago.

I managed to find and install Choirokitian character sets for Ms Office and started playing with the idea of Greek to Choirokitian translation etc, when I realized it’s a bigger project than I had time for so it’s on the backburner… :)

Btw, on a similar note I did post here a HTML for Latin Greeklish to Greek converter! 8)

Choirokitians didn't use any writing system so it is impossible to have Choirokitian character sets unless you made them up yourself using your wild imagination ;) And we don't even know what language those people spoke ... so you can't have Greek to Choirokitian translation either! :|
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