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You must know most of the tunes on the internet, ‘Man! How come Maraveyas met you?!😹A Life-changing experience for him! In the context of this song how would you then might you translate πριν φυσήξω καπνό. Can φυσάω be used in the sense of the English idiom ‘to blow a kiss’ rather like the...

Very quick and useful response, cougr! I completely missed εδώ in my rendering! The song shows to me very little musical or literary talent but as part of my attempt to understand Greek in all registers and to gain some fluency in speaking also, I regularly listen to a Greek pop tune. Alexandra...

I’ve just been listening to the song Εθισμός by Kostas Marayevas and this line of verse I cannot make sense of. Here is the stanza:- Νύχτα βροχερή, κόκκινο κρασί στέκεσαι γυμνή με το χρυσό σου σταυρό άγνωστο κορμί, που δεν έχεις καιρό (who you have no time for??) μόλις σ′ είχα εδώ, πριν φυσήξω...

Thanks, ‘Man! 😀

Thanks so much, ‘Man! I don’t know why on earth I could not access EASY GREEK #3 it despite the fact that I had the right youtube number. Can you enlighten me?🤔

Thanks, cougr! I spent half the morning trying to get the right youtube clip to download but always the Cypriot one came up instead of Greek food! All is clear now, thank you.☺️

In this snippet of conversation from EASY GREEK video #3, the English subtitles don’t seem to relate to the Greek text of the snippet of conversation. Here is the video and it deals with the eating habits of the people of Thessaloniki: ] At 0:17 there is a conversation with a Thessalonican...

A brilliant film clip; makes even those as old as I am fizz and boing…..

Thanks, cougr! I thought I’d missed some more of the spoken dialogue. I’m glad I got most of the words apart from my ignorance of the χασάπικο. I feel at long last I’m making some progress with understanding the apparent conversational speed of Greek. Patience and perseverance brought the snail...

Thanks for all this, Earion! What is the Greek here for “Are you mad? What are you talking about?” I didn’t hear it, hence the lacuna in my ‘transcript’!

In this clip from Διπλοπενιες 1966 film [Harry Clynn?] I have tried to make a transcript of the initial dialogue between speakers 1 & 2, until they hear the ‘drunken’ song from the singer on the scaffolding and get out their bouzoukis to accompany the song. I could pick out the odd word but this...

My favourite food! μιαμ, μιαμ, από μένα, που είμαι τουλάχιστον στο νήμα αυτό, γνωστός προσωρινά όχι ως ο Θησέας αλλά ως ο Γιαμιχαραμ!,😹

Is there there an onomatopoeic sound in Greek which resembles the English ‘fizz’, as e.g. φζζ/ φσσσσσς depending on the length of the sound?

I like μιαμ μιαμ μιαμ better, ‘Man! Γιάμι is clearly derived from English. BTW, is there a Greek onomatopoeic word for the sound of a liquid fizzing? Or do I make fizz and say, sizzle a different thread? I need guidance from a moderator.

In a statement first attributed to Arthur Brisbane in a 1911 journal ‘one look is worth a thousand words’. In Greek it is rendered as Μία εικόνα, χίλιες λέξεις! Thanks, cougr!

I have never come across this interjection in Greek before! Of course, the English pronunciation ot the IPA shwa here is /ˈjʌm.i/, which is in Greek changed to / jam.i/, as so often happens with this English obscure vowel. Obvious after the event! Once more the faithful cougr comes to the...

In this EASY GREEK video, which is about ‘the first 50+ Greek words beginners should know’ at at approximately 8:12 the two actors are in a restaurant where the one with a shock of black hair says to the close-shaven one ‘The food here is no good; it’s better over there’. He goes to the place...

No pardon needed! The discussion is very fascinating. Off topic posts are perhaps my speciality! Earion’s image of the ‘Athonite’ gods is interesting. i’m glad I asked for translations of this phrase! Thanks to all.

Thanks for the definitions, m_a_a! I was perhaps misled by the fact that some etymologists derive the Turkish fidan from the ancient Greek φυτόν, which has derivatives in many languages. This from Wiktionary:- Descendants Greek: φυτό n (fytó) → Catalan: -fit → English: phyto-, -phyte → Irish...

Thank for all contributions and examples. I found in my notebook, from wordreference greek, κακός μπέλας,/παλιάνθρωπος,/κάθαρμα/παλιοτόμαρο and τομάρι. But I prefer καλό φρούτο, but it has connotations of the English ‘weirdo with overtones of sociopathic behaviour. This interesting note is from...