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Καλό φυντάνι is used in the latest transcript and video of EASY GREEK and is translated as ‘a fine piece of work’ i.e, ‘an unpleasant, difficult and in this context, a nasty person’. The note explains the word as meaning ‘a seedling’ but metaphorically as someone young and unexperienced. Also...

I like both of them: after all, Longinus’s work on the sublime was Περί Ύψους. So either alternative using the same word he did. Thanks, Nickel!

Sorry for the misunderstanding I too get irascible with auto-correct: Theseus, The stud, indeed, still…..😱

Tripe soup, after liver, garlic and onions! I wish I’d stayed at home!! Πατσάς might be a good remedy for hangovers but I’d stick with my Amstel and lashings of τσικουδιά from my own καζάνι….

I missed thanking you for this. A belated thanks!🙏

Χαχαχαχα, Κ! It is onions and garlic for me that call forth that μπλιαχ 🤢.

Thanks again, cougr. I don’t think in my original thread that I meant to criticise the Olympian gods’ frivolity but I did compare theirs with ours. They are immortal: we are mortal. We are flesh and blood: they have supernatural flesh (Plato implies they are spiritual) and ichor flows through...

Thanks, all for their very helpful comments and suggestions. As is now the case in England and America several mums or moms use the same slang phrases as their children. I have heard young colleagues in teaching, both male and female, who use words like ‘cool/ wicked/ dude’ to appear to their...

Blessed I-don't-give-a-toss! Not literary but fits the bill! Thanks, m_a_a!

Thanks, Νωβελίσσιμε! Also interesting and a relevant citation. The gods of Rome are not the same as the gods of Ancient Greece, despite attempts to identify the two. Reading Virgil is an entirely different experience from reading Homer. ‘Sublimely frivolous’ is not, in my opinion, applicable to...

What would we do without cougr! Thanks yet again. The idea of transcendence and sublimity is difficult to render into many languages! It can be described and hinted at by our poets. The Romans called it numen. Rudolf Otto in his book ‘The idea of the Holy’ described it as mysterium tremendum ac...

Karl Reinhardt in a memorable phrase about the Greek gods in Homer’s Iliad talks of them as displaying—in a wonderful oxymoron--‘a sublime frivolity—ein erhabener Unernst”.The gods are a paradox of great beauty and excellence whilst also being light-hearted and spontaneous, not caring about...

Thanks again, cougr!

Thanks, as ever, cougr! BTW is there a Greek interjection for the sound you make when being sick? Μπλίαχ;🤢

I have just heard someone, prominent in the Roman Catholic Church describing Pope Francis watching a dance performed in front of the late Pope with a priest in a cassock and a nun kicking their legs in the air as ‘a cringefest’. Any ideas as well as my last post!!

Truly brilliant, nickel. Believe you me, I have made many attempts to translate poems into Latin, Ancient Greek and Scottish Gaelic, but they have been attempts and, like all such efforts, often unsatisfactory to the translator. Thank you too from me. This is why I love this forum. So many...

I have heard this epithet usually used by certain women, who have posted, say, pictures of their children or grandchildren on web sites like instagram and snap chatq which the children or grandchildren, when they have grown up, find highly embarrassing. This compound is a recent variation of an...

Thanks to all but particularly cougr for his unremitting research on this and many other topics. He must be purring now, as pumas do, since his elusive prey has at last been tracked down, He can leave the roaring sound of bigger cats- ‘ντε λαξ!’-to the anonymous man of Santorini ‘high up on...

I have seen de luxe written in Greek as ντε λουξ, as SVE remarks.

Thanks, dharvatis, for your very interesting ‘greyscale’ terms and’ of course to the indefatigable and tolerant cougr! These are the terms I have found in my English-Greek, Greek-English Encyclopaedia of Aviation. Trim tabs are πτερύγια ζυγοσταθμίσης, βοηθητικά πτερυγίδια χείλους εκφυγής των...