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[Get Real!]

You're trying too hard to acquire what you can never have. A claim to Cyprus from birth, and a peasant village schooling. A continuous Cypriot culture which fits comfortably like a glove. Unlike the turmoil which torments you and makes you try to destroy what you are clearly unfamiliar with from your outback ascendancy. Your classless showing off of your newly acquired "Cypriotness" is deserving of that lovely Cypriot term we give to show offs ... Go on. Look it up!

Yeah great, but.....

If you don’t know the language, you don’t know the traditions, you don’t know the history, then what the fuck do you know?

[GreekIslandGirl]

You're trying too hard to acquire what you can never have. A claim to Cyprus from birth, and a peasant village schooling. A continuous Cypriot culture which fits comfortably like a glove. Unlike the turmoil which torments you and makes you try to destroy what you are clearly unfamiliar with from your outback ascendancy. Your classless showing off of your newly acquired "Cypriotness" is deserving of that lovely Cypriot term we give to show offs ... Go on. Look it up!

Yeah great, but.....

If you don’t know the language, you don’t know the traditions, you don’t know the history, then what the fuck do you know?

I was born in a typical Greek-speaking Cyprus village. All my formative years were spent climbing fig trees and chasing goats. I didn't have to learn Greek in my later years like you and call it something else because it isn't my mother tongue and will never sound quite right ...

- You've clearly found some new book and now you're all excited you can acquire peasant-speak and familiarize yourself with some traditions practiced outside Nicosia nightclubs.

[boomerang]

spoke greek in a typical greek village in north pafos?...

i can just picture it when you go shopping...irten pale na psoumnisi i kalamarina...in greek in a village in north pafos...

[GreekIslandGirl]

Maybe in your village they spoke "Turkish". Mine was definitely Greek and my school (still) has a Greek flag flying ...

[boomerang]

Maybe in your village they spoke Turkish. Mine was definitely Greek and my school (still) has a Greek flag flying ...

i was born a lemesianos kiria kalamarina...where actually a few greek words were thrown in...not some village far removed from society...actually it all makes sense...

iden o kolos to vradjie tzie eshestike...this is you...

PS...if you need a trans please go ahead and ask...

[Get Real!]

I was born in a typical Greek-speaking Cyprus village.

But you don't know any Paphian so who is going to believe your story?

All my formative years were spent climbing fig trees and chasing goats.

The Cypriot Fig tree is the one tree you should NEVER climb because if you do you’ll end up in hospital from severe itching and in some cases nasty swelling of the face and neck. That milky shit it gives off is incredibly allergic to most people so I doubt you were climbing on them… LIAR!

[Get Real!]

iden o kolos to vradjie tzie eshestike...this is you...

Asilas re gamoda!

[GreekIslandGirl]

We can go over the subtleties of what constitutes the real Cyprus - a backward north Paphos peasant village (like mine) where they speak Greek or a cosmopolitan town like Limassol where they speak ... erm ... English and Turkish and Arabic and erm ... erm ... as you said ... a few words of Greek!

By Jove, I think we have it ...

[boomerang]

it could have been a kalamaristiko fig tree... a fig-ment of someones greek imagination...

[GreekIslandGirl]

I was born in a typical Greek-speaking Cyprus village.

But you don't know any Paphian so who is going to believe your story?

All my formative years were spent climbing fig trees and chasing goats.

The Cypriot Fig tree is the one tree you should NEVER climb because if you do you’ll end up in hospital from severe itching and in some cases nasty swelling of the face and neck. That milky shit it gives off is incredibly allergic to most people so I doubt you were climbing on them… LIAR!

I'm not a liar - because that's precisely why I used to climb them (as I may have mentioned on CF before) so that I would be allowed to go swimming afterwards to wash the sap off. A little 'tradition' among us peasant village kids!

BTW - there's no such thing as "Paphian" you Ozzie throwback.