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Re: Interesting word

Postby kurupetos » Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:47 pm

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Re: Interesting word

Postby Sotos » Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:46 pm

Get Real! wrote:Here's the REAL CYPRUS Sotos in...

"Through Cyprus with the Camera in the Autumn of 1878: Vols 1 and 2"

which is FULL of pictures... no lies!


Here are some more pages from your favorite book:

037.jpg


036.jpg


Can you read the part about native Greeks GR? ;) Now go back to your imaginary world :lol:
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Re: Interesting word

Postby Get Real! » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:15 pm

Whenever you see that you should read “Christian Cypriots” because that’s what the Ottomans were using to distinguish them from Muslim Cypriots. So, FORGET LABELS and start using your head.
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Re: Interesting word

Postby Oceanside50 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:25 pm

[quote="kurupetos"]2+2=5
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_.....

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Re: Interesting word

Postby B25 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:31 pm

Bugger! If my Ancestors looked like those Peasant Afgan camel shaggers, I'm outta here. Real Cypriots, my arse.
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Re: Interesting word

Postby Get Real! » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:49 pm

B25 wrote:Bugger! If my Ancestors looked like those Peasant Afgan camel shaggers, I'm outta here. Real Cypriots, my arse.

In those days most worked the fields all day so they were sunburned. The two little black kids are the kids of black slaves imported by the Ottomans and the guy on the right is a "TC"... could be Halil's great grandpa! :lol:
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Re: Interesting word

Postby supporttheunderdog » Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:15 pm

B25 wrote:
supporttheunderdog wrote:I thinks its another of Gig's dinosaur remnants - derived from a common ancestor of most Indo - European languages of which Greek is one - and where in consequence without having originated in Greek there will be similarities.


STUD, there is no need for this troll post to GiGs. It was an interesting discussing until you started getting personal AGAIN. Back off!


I would make the point GiG introduced Dinosaur remnants into a topic on linguistics , however I'll rephrase it.

Bearing in mind that most European languages (of which Greek is one and Spanish another,) are derived from a common ancestor the word might exist in Spanish without originating in Greek,

I dont exclude the possibility ít wasGreek in origin There a number of ways in which the word became common in Spain - the use of loan words is very common (English being a language that has borrowed more words than most)
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Re: Interesting word

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:22 pm

supporttheunderdog wrote:
B25 wrote:
supporttheunderdog wrote:I thinks its another of Gig's dinosaur remnants - derived from a common ancestor of most Indo - European languages of which Greek is one - and where in consequence without having originated in Greek there will be similarities.


STUD, there is no need for this troll post to GiGs. It was an interesting discussing until you started getting personal AGAIN. Back off!


I would make the point GiG introduced Dinosaur remnants into a topic on linguistics , however I'll rephrase it.

Bearing in mind that most European languages (of which Greek is one and Spanish another,) are derived from a common ancestor the word might exist in Spanish without originating in Greek,

I dont exclude the possibility ít wasGreek in origin There a number of ways in which the word became common in Spain - the use of loan words is very common (English being a language that has borrowed more words than most)


This was my post, you troll - where does it mention dinosaurs?

GreekIslandGirl wrote:Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation. :D

Can't find a Spanish etymological dictionary to verify, though.

(κουνιάδα)

[Gambros seems to be ancient Greek for brother-in-law.]



Basically, you had NOTHING to add to the discussion, so you trolled me again!
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Re: Interesting word

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:25 pm

B25 wrote:Bugger! If my Ancestors looked like those Peasant Afgan camel shaggers, I'm outta here. Real Cypriots, my arse.


The Turks and the Brits kept us poor. This was the same in all the countries these empires enslaved. We weren't even allowed to build dams till the mid-1960s, for goodness sake.

Our legacy is our language and the number of other languages it has enriched. (This isn't "arrogance" - this is a fact.)
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Re: Interesting word

Postby supporttheunderdog » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:01 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:
supporttheunderdog wrote:
B25 wrote:
supporttheunderdog wrote:I thinks its another of Gig's dinosaur remnants - derived from a common ancestor of most Indo - European languages of which Greek is one - and where in consequence without having originated in Greek there will be similarities.


STUD, there is no need for this troll post to GiGs. It was an interesting discussing until you started getting personal AGAIN. Back off!


I would make the point GiG introduced Dinosaur remnants into a topic on linguistics , however I'll rephrase it.

Bearing in mind that most European languages (of which Greek is one and Spanish another,) are derived from a common ancestor the word might exist in Spanish without originating in Greek,

I dont exclude the possibility ít wasGreek in origin There a number of ways in which the word became common in Spain - the use of loan words is very common (English being a language that has borrowed more words than most)


This was my post, you troll - where does it mention dinosaurs?





GreekIslandGirl wrote:Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation. :D

Can't find a Spanish etymological dictionary to verify, though.

(κουνιάδα)

[Gambros seems to be ancient Greek for brother-in-law.]



Basically, you had NOTHING to add to the discussion, so you trolled me again!


Did I say it was in this thread? I used the indefinite article.
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