Get Real! wrote:Paphitis, used to call me up some years back so I’ll have you all know that he is actually very well spoken and polite.
His Greek is Hellas-Greek, his English is in fact British-English (not aussie), and I doubt he understands much Cypriot despite his alias.
Overall a likeable chap, and the only thing he needs to be careful with is to keep reminding himself that conversations cannot be monologues.
Cheers my friend.
I always found you very likable and still do.
I'm getting that a lot at the moment. The Americans I am training with and our instructors can't believe I'm even Australian. They say that I must have spent many years in the UK.
The stereotypical Aussie twang is very rough, and in that form can be very abrupt and quite ugly and incorrect. Most Aussies these days, that live in the big cities (most of them) do not live up to it either and are quite well spoken. But there is a distinct Australian Accent. I've been told that mine is more English. I have been told by many that my vocabulary is much more broad than the average. The Americans are far worse still. The Canadians are much better, and far more grammatically correct and refined.
The Canadians in the group are much easier to tolerate than the Americans.
I also find it easier communicating in Greece than in Cyprus. And in Cyprus, I get called a kalamara many times by people who speak to me. Sometimes they think I am from Greece. Yes it's true I don't speak Cypriot well at all, with the way I talk. I can understand it though, but just can't really talk like Cypriots and many of the Cypriot words of the Cypriot Dialect I may not understand at all if there is a bit of complexity in it.
