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Thanks, nickel! At least, I tried…But is it available with Greek subtitles because I can easily follow them?

There are several films and songs with this title but the one I am interested in is found at I am told that is a classic film but I...

Wise advice as ever, SBE! Thanks!🙏

The usual thanks from me, cougr! Thanks also for the cue…

"Ροβιόλι" doesn't refer to bands but rather, can be considered a hyponym of mondegreen. Given that if you used the term "roviolia" as a...

So, with all this information, how do I translate into acceptable English the whole sentence of anepipsogos’s #8 Greek statement? Θεγξ...

Thanks, cougr, for explaining the strange mondegreen and, typically, for the very useful information. So my translation is roughly...

Ροβιόλια is a reference to a popular mondegreen from the song "Στου Θωμά", where the line "με βιολί σαντουροβιόλι*" has often been...

Anepipsogos, I haven’t a clue what you have written here! The only sense I could make of your oracular and riddling comment is:- “What...

Apologies, I thought that that thread had gone dead. See my reply there. Thanks so much!

Thanks very, very much, AoratiMelani! It is so simple a solution that it is brilliant. I hadn’t realised that I had suggested my guess...

Actually it is "ο Ρωμιός ορμά" = the Greek rushes (=all Greeks rush out to have fun). I can't get over the fact that various people...

The trouble is with some pop songs that they twist the language to make it rhyme. Figuratively, ορμάω can mean dash/ run, like τρέχω, so...

Thanks, cougr. Could it be ‘the hour of 1 (a. m.) rushes by’: a totally tortuous explanation (!) & ‘translation’.

It doesn't make sense as a coherent sentence in Greek, Theseus. It's not an idiomatic expression nor does it work semantically or...