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[boulio]

i personally believe and i dont like sterotyping anyone group that most t/c/turks want partition.for all the g/c in this forum your talking to walls.unfortunately.

[tcypriot]

Partition is a continuously strengthening option. Do not forget that a few months ago the greek cypriots chose PARTITION...

[erolz]

Kelebek
I personally find your lack of facts when making arguments quite disturbing. And you are agressive with it too.

But you do not see similar from any GC posters here, or see no need to comment on them?

[Alasya]

insan

"Alasya, are you aware of that we have been "exerting" too hard to build a better future for us. And it's been almost 50 years since we started... We all "exerted" too much to break the walls for a common life of Cypriots. Ask Tassos, Denktash, Klerides, Christofias all others... They will tell you the same things but you'll not believe because of relativity. How long would you struggle to find a middle way which would satisfy majority of both parties? 1 or 2 years more? Then? Perhaps you prefer forever..."

I agree that the solution must come from the people, we rely too much on a political settlement. Actually I spoke with a friend of mine who had just returned from Cyprus, he said so many T/C had G/C contacts and friends and that the people visit each other and mingle. This is very encouraging.

But at the same time we need to find a political solution too, however difficult it is to find a middle ground.


mikkie

"Alasya,

We have all been affected by what has happened. And that seems to be part of the problem because one side seems to think that they don't care what happened to the other when nothing could be further from the truth.

As communties we have both paid a heavy price and it seems that some people want to continue paying this price, defending stupid positions which don't seem to be compatible with the modern word.

I want dialogue and that is the only way to get enough understanding so as to unify our homeland. I don't want to talk about dividing it"

I think that both sides seem to brush aside each others suffering too easily, as any victim they cannot understand other peoples suffering, they believe that they suffer alone. But we have to some how move away from this topic and talk about the future and other interesting things like...bilinguilism, education, building a new Cyprus light railway to deal with congestion, ways of combatting beta-thelasemmia, a disease that affects one in seven G/C and one in twelve T/C.

By the way am I the only linguist here? Anybody else have a passion for language issues?

[boulio]

ACTUALLY I DONT THINK THE GREEK-CYPRIOTS chose partition but sanity.they would not be subjegated to a plan as the 1960 zurich agreement.basically they learned from there mistakes.i think The greek cypriots would vote for any plan as long as they are not some protectorate of turkey.

[Alasya]

erolz

"But you do not see similar from any GC posters here, or see no need to comment on them?"


I believe our G/C members should answer this. The same treatment for everybody.

[Alexandros Lordos]

By the way am I the only linguist here? Anybody else have a passion for language issues?

Wouldn't it be amazing if all of us could speak both Greek and Turkish? Then we wouldn't have to use this stupid English to communicate ...

[erolz]

Wouldn't it be amazing if all of us could speak both Greek and Turkish? Then we wouldn't have to use this stupid English to communicate ...

Personaly I would find it pretty amazing if I could speak either Greek or Turkish or anything other than 'stupid english'

[Piratis]

My spelling sucks even more in Greek than in English. When I was kid I refused to learn spelling because I considered it a waste of time to learn 5 different ways to write the sound "e" and such

[Alasya]

English seems to be used as a means of communication between G/C and T/C nowadays.

We could always switch to french....