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    cougr replied to the thread Dimensions are absolute.
    In that case I'd recommend that you wrote: Να εφαρμοστούν επακριβώς οι διαστάσεις. Ακριβώς would simply read as exactly/precisely.
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    cougr replied to the thread γαλλικό!.
    I've never come across it being used like this, although γαλλικά in slang does refer to swear words. Theseus: I have come across...
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    cougr replied to the thread Dimensions are absolute.
    Putting aside semantic considerations and other possible meanings of the phrase, it is occasionally, in some jurisdictions, used in the...
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    cougr replied to the thread Dimensions are absolute.
    I'm quite sure Cosmas knew what he was doing. I'll come back to it later because I'm busy today.
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    I had to look him up but I note he did an episode here once.
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    ΔΕΟΣ - Για όσους Δεν Είναι Οκ Στις αποδείξεις. :)
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    Πληροφορούμαι ότι το ιστορικό πλέον ΣΔΟΕ θα αλλάξει όνομα και πλέον θα κυκλοφορεί με το ακρωνύμιο ΔΕΟΣ. Από τα μέσα Μαρτίου τίθεται σε...
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    cougr reacted to m_a_a_'s post in the thread The thread of Konstantinos Papaconstan with Like Like.
    Στο Χουρχουλίδι μια φορά, είπε ένας νιόνιος «γκόνα»: λεξούλα μια σταλιά, μικρή και τσαπερδόνα, που λέγε-λέγε, θέριεψε, και γίνηκε...
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    I don't know why I wrote "aunty" but I had meant "lady". I would appreciate it if it were corrected. Many thanks!
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    Κόνα as a form of address was actually a term used more by the Greeks of Smyrna. In Pontic Greek it is the shortened form for εικόνα.
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    Actually, it most likely comes from κοκόνα. η κοκόνα, κυρά. [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < κοκόνα, με συγκοπή της πρώτης συλλαβής...
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    I think you mean "κόνα", which in Pontic Greek is used as a respectful address for an older woman, similar to "madam" or "lady". It's...
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    cougr replied to the thread Dimensions are absolute.
    Given that the term "απόλυτες διαστάσεις" is commonly used in architecture to refer to absolute dimensions (in contrast to relative...
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    I had also wanted to add (but was interrupted whist writing my previous post) that, in other words, as has already been alluded to by...
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    Ουπς, ήταν δίπλα-δίπλα τα σχόλιά σας και μπερδεύτηκα. Μπορείς πάντως να το θεωρήσεις κομπλιμέντο. :-)
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