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[Get Real!]

Sounds like you were/are a minority Cypriot. Are you sure you're not part TC?

My whole village was a minority? I don’t think so!

But it’s funny coming from you who supposedly comes from northern Paphos!!!

For crying out loud… the northern Paphians had a language of their own not even we could understand!!!

Oracle, why don’t you own up and admit that you moved to the UK or something from the time you were very little or were probably raised in Greece which is where one of your parents comes from!

I think there’s too much LYING on this forum!

[Get Real!]

99 percent of cyp dialect are pure Greek ...another challenge gr...give us a cyp dialect word that ain't Greek

Absolute rubbish! Another foreigner pretending to be Cypriot!

Digla = look
Alobos = maybe
Sindishe = speak
Gargin = opposite
Akkano = to bite
Inda = what
Gattos = cat
Batsos = slap
Katratzila = downward slope
Vrixe = shut up

Go on Greek genius explain these and when you're done the next set of 10 awaits you!

[GreekIslandGirl]

Sounds like you were/are a minority Cypriot. Are you sure you're not part TC?

My whole village was a minority? I don’t think so!

But it’s funny coming from you who supposedly comes from northern Paphos!!!

For crying out loud… the northern Paphians had a language of their own not even we could understand!!!

Oracle, why don’t you own up and admit that you moved to the UK or something from the time you were very little or were probably raised in Greece which is where one of your parents comes from!

I think there’s too much LYING on this forum!

There's no lying here. The language is the same in Paphos as all over the Greek world - just the pronunciation is different; again, same dialectical phenomenon as everywhere else in the world.

You're a minority because Greeks seem so "alien" to you. From what you yourself said - you are a minority among GCs in not having any Greek relatives/friends/contacts. Most GCs have an in-law or close relative who is a mainland Greek - only a minority Cypriot (like you), or a TC, can be nearly 50 years old and have absolutely no contact or familiarity with Greeks in Cyprus.

[Get Real!]

Sounds like you were/are a minority Cypriot. Are you sure you're not part TC?

My whole village was a minority? I don’t think so!

But it’s funny coming from you who supposedly comes from northern Paphos!!!

For crying out loud… the northern Paphians had a language of their own not even we could understand!!!

Oracle, why don’t you own up and admit that you moved to the UK or something from the time you were very little or were probably raised in Greece which is where one of your parents comes from!

I think there’s too much LYING on this forum!

There's no lying here. The language is the same in Paphos as all over the Greek world - just the pronunciation is different; again, same dialectical phenomenon as everywhere else in the world.

You're fucking clueless! You foreign cow!

Even I know a few Paphian words:

Shakadouri = downhill
Embeigen = entered
Exeigen = exited
Tapparogolou = motorbike

I’ve got an uncle there who speaks Paphian fluently. Don’t make me call him… he’ll put you to shame so bad!

You're a minority because Greeks seem so "alien" to you. From what you yourself said - you are a minority among GCs in not having any Greek relatives/friends/contacts. Most GCs have an in-law or close relative who is a mainland Greek - only a minority Cypriot (like you), or a TC, can be nearly 50 years old and have absolutely no contact or familiarity with Greeks in Cyprus.

A relative from Greece? God forbid… how the fuck would I get one of them unless I marry a Greek woman? And why would I do that when I can have a Cypriot girl with whom I can communicate?

[Get Real!]

Hey Wyoming goofball, how long are your Greek derivations going to take because we’ve got about 5,000 words to go through!

Hurry up!

[GreekIslandGirl]

Even I know a few Paphian words:

Shakadouri = downhill
Embeigen = entered
Exeigen = exited
Tapparogolou = motorbike

I’ve got an uncle there who speaks Paphian fluently. Don’t make me call him… he’ll put you to shame so bad!

How is that a different language?

[Get Real!]

Even I know a few Paphian words:

Shakadouri = downhill
Embeigen = entered
Exeigen = exited
Tapparogolou = motorbike

I’ve got an uncle there who speaks Paphian fluently. Don’t make me call him… he’ll put you to shame so bad!

How is that a different language?

Just learn the Cypriot language and shut the fuck up with your dumb questions!

Simera enna mathoumen din glossa mas re poushdo kalamarouthkia…

Arkopses = tomorrow evening

Gotziakari = old woman

Adzia = bread’s edge

Vortos = fatso or mule

Vlantzi = liver

Thoro = I see

Esso = inside

Gailo = accept

Katsarizo = make noise

Lafazani = liar

Gori ambaladi emathes oxa akoma?

[apc2010]

........is .this the flag flying on the coral beach road ...............if so it seems to celebrate a waste pumping station ..................there is irony there somewhere ....

[Get Real!]

Ade boulla mou ma emannepses?

Cypriot my arse! You don't understand a word!

[ZoC]

........is .this the flag flying on the coral beach road ...............if so it seems to celebrate a waste pumping station ..................there is irony there somewhere ....

i could see it from the hotel i was staying in paphos... huge and incongruous. just flying there along the edge of the coast. u can see it from the main road... we was passing it one day, on a trip to coral beach by bus. could hear a number of people murmur how ridiculous it looked.

btw, re: cypriot words.... here's one for wyoming to fret about.

batiha = watermelon
(the greeks call it 'karpouzi', from the turkish 'karpuz')