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[NeverSayGoodbye]

Sorry Cypezokyli but you are way off.From the few lines i read from your reply your knowledge of the greek language is limited.
After the death of Alexander Common Greek(KOINE) was created based on the attic dialect which was spoken in athens at the time.It was put toghether from all the dialects in the greek world.Modern Greek has evolved from that language including the cypriot dialect.
Isnt it just amazing to be able to read and pretty much understand what was written thousands of years just knowing modern greek i dont think any other language has that ability.
My point is that me speaking Greek today is proof that i am connected to the ancient greeks thousands of years ago.The evolution of the language is there
and has been spoken not because the christians forced upon us but cause it has been passed down from generation to generation.

[cypezokyli]

i have never studied ancient greek ,
but despite the fact i can read it, i cannot say that i can understand.

if you can, you have my respect.

i ask again, if we didnot have a common education (after the 1900s), do you think it was easier to communicate with a christian in north turkey , than a muslim in cyprus ?

i am not, arguing against the roots of the gc dialect, i am asking a concrete question.

i am saying that each dialect evolved, and after the creation of states ans nations, we were all forced to abandon that evolution (our dialect), in order to unify the nation.
didnt you notice that the gc dialect is getting lost ?

[Michael]

cypezokyli, I wouldn't say that your comparison is very successful. Germans must be among the most cold people in the world (no offense). If you were using another mediterranean nation (e.g. Italians) then the contrast would not be so sharp.

the reason i chose the germans is because first I know them better, and second , michael refered to diametrically opposing cultures between turks and europe. if germans are not europeans , who is ?
i could have even chose sweden.

it is true that with the meditereannean (which excludes most of europe) people we have more things in common , BUT, besides some greek islands of the ionian see, we lived together for 400 years!! we didnot liive together with italians, or spanish. so, when till you people give me, what cultural similarities we have with any country, that we dont have with tcs i will believe you.

....
for the great helene -christian (two words that will always punch each other when put next to each other) , with the "nation" ideas.
people who used to live in kapadokia during the ottoman empire, used to :
speak turkish
but,
where christians.
and
even though they wrote in turkish
they used the greek alphabet to do that.

classify them, in which "nation" they belonged. and guess were they are today, or how their culture has been altered

Yes, this is cobbled history of the worse type. Fantasies banded from one believer to another. A grotesque Chinese whisper to fit into a world they would like it to be. Unsubstantiated hearsay of the wooly café intellectual mutates into the authorities history of our people.
It exists only behind Mr Cypezokyli wardrobe, together with Lion and the Witch!

[cypezokyli]

thank you for yet another compliment and a typicall, patriotc well documented answer. i didnot epect sth different

[Pasha]

This forum never ceases to amaze me. For every subject the majority of you have to get in your "Turkish jokes", that somehow, we are inferior to you.

Theresa, that is true, but I still think that Greek men on the whole are much more attractive then Turkish men.
Don't you agree??

What a joke, how can you categorise an entire race of people ?

It is so heart-warming, Turkish Cypriots using a Greek Cypriot hospital. I wonder when they last paid their taxes?
While you’re at the hospital, have your eyes tested. I have never seen a Turk or Turkish Cypriot that looked remotely Greek.

When you've quite finished your dig at Turkish Cypriots, people have assumed me to be Greek on numerous occasions.

Cream of some young guy?

Typical attitude of personal attacks when things don't go your way.

It seems no-one else apart from pumpernickle and cypezokyli will stand up to the ultra-nationalism of the chucklebrothers "Michael & Simon" on this forum.

[Michael]

This forum never ceases to amaze me. For every subject the majority of you have to get in your "Turkish jokes", that somehow, we are inferior to you.

Theresa, that is true, but I still think that Greek men on the whole are much more attractive then Turkish men.
Don't you agree??

What a joke, how can you categorise an entire race of people ?

It is so heart-warming, Turkish Cypriots using a Greek Cypriot hospital. I wonder when they last paid their taxes?
While you’re at the hospital, have your eyes tested. I have never seen a Turk or Turkish Cypriot that looked remotely Greek.

When you've quite finished your dig at Turkish Cypriots, people have assumed me to be Greek on numerous occasions.

Cream of some young guy?

Typical attitude of personal attacks when things don't go your way.

It seems no-one else apart from pumpernickle and cypezokyli will stand up to the ultra-nationalism of the chucklebrothers "Michael & Simon" on this forum.

Did these people perchance wear dark glasses, have a white stick, and a labrador dog at the end of a leash?

To the Moderator I am making a formal complaint. Why do you allow these slogans in the Turkish “language” to be exhibited on this forum? I thought the lingua franca was English.

[Pasha]

Did these people perchance wear dark glasses, have a white stick, and a labrador dog at the end of a leash?

Don't quit your day job and become a comedian , will you ?

No they happened to GREEK CYPRIOTS who had met me for the first time and not known my name etc.

And if by slogans you are referring to my sig, then you are wrong (not for the first time, usually all the time) . It's a lyric from a song which just happens to mean:

"It's a shame that fate turned out this way."

Oh, and about this

Why do you allow these slogans in the Turkish “language”

Yes Turkish is a language, sorry to expand your narrow mind.

[Michael]

Did these people perchance wear dark glasses, have a white stick, and a labrador dog at the end of a leash?

Don't quit your day job and become a comedian , will you ?

No they happened to GREEK CYPRIOTS who had met me for the first time and not known my name etc.

And if by slogans you are referring to my sig, then you are wrong (not for the first time, usually all the time) . It's a lyric from a song which just happens to mean:

"It's a shame that fate turned out this way."

Oh, and about this

Why do you allow these slogans in the Turkish “language”

Yes Turkish is a language, sorry to expand your narrow mind.

Did the Greek Cypriots wear the dark specs, have a white stick, and a labrador dog at the end of a leash?
Why can’t you just accept that your Turkish and be done with it. What is with you Turks? If you’re not draping the Union Jack around yourselves, you’re pretending to be someone else.
“I think I am going be Austrian today!” Okay not the best example!!

[cypezokyli]

once again you dont have a clue what you are talking about .

if europeans would have read your posts, they would expect the average gcypriot to be nationalistic, intolerant, racist, turk-hater ...etc etc.

[Michael]

"It's a shame that fate turned out this way."



I think what you meant to say was , your face?

"It's a shame that your face turned out this way."