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A brilliant tip. Next time I’m stuck on Greek dialects, I shall try it out and hope that the content is not so vulgar! Thank you.🤩

Thanks, cougr! To the rescue, as so often! 🤗

The context is about a washing machine which has broken down. Sophia, whose washing machine it is, is distraught and doesn’t know what to do, so she phones her friend, Elena. Elena’s first question is to ask whether there is a lot of damage. Then comes the phrase quoted above. It should mean...

Thank you, SBE! To read them aloud is very good tip! As I said, I’m currently doing an intensive course in Greek, which is making me almost obsessive since there is so much material to read and hear in preparation. At present (week 4 out of 12), it is electrical goods and changing faulty ones in...

Thanks, cougr!

A big thank you for all of this to cougr and ‘Man. I apologise for the content, the meaning of which I was totally ignorant. As regards ‘Man’s contribution, this ignorant, disparaging and patronising attitude to country people and their rustic accent is widespread among uncivilised city...

I have come across this interjection twice and haven’t the slightest idea what it means. When I followed it up, confusion was worse confounded! The second time was on facebook and clearly was in a different dialect of Greek (Aeolic?!). Here is the context, a bucolic drama:-...

Thanks for both suggestions, cougr!

Defined well by the Cambridge English Dictionary with an example in context:- something that you say when you find someone else's stupid behaviour or inability to do something annoying: “Oh, give me strength! Do you want me to do it for you?” What, please, is the Greek equivalent of this...

SBE! I have to reply from my sickbed to thank you for this exhaustive and illuminating answer to my question! It is clearly laid out and amply supplied with pertinent guidelines of how to use each particle in context and what usages to avoid. I shall refer myself to it often. And thank you...

I was aware of this, cougr. It was that discussion, as you opined, that prompted my question. It still left me unsure of the subtle nuances of ρε & βρε. As for μωρέ and μωρή ((I should have also added μωρό) they seem in a different category. Incidentally, it seems that the word βρε is not Greek...

Beginners like me (wrongly) tend to think that the first two are synonymous. As for the remaining two its seems that μωρέ can mean ‘babe’ even when used of a woman and μωρή is an insult only to a woman. But I am very confused. Clearly the tone of voice in which the latter two are used is also...

A wonderful use of the Biblical idiom, SBE! A staged and hypocritical innocence that disguises inner guilt. Thank you!

Thanks, cougr….as ever!🙏

Performative Outrage' describes a public display of anger or strong emotion regarding a societal issue, primarily intended to signal one's virtue or alignment with a particular group or viewpoint, rather than stemming from a deeply felt personal conviction or leading to substantive

Thanks, Alexandra! I then presume that both words can be used in legal contexts as well. 🤩🙋‍♀️

In this song what is the exact difference in meaning between the nouns in bold:- Αν γίνουν οι ενδείξεις αποδείξεις τα πράματα είναι πλέον σοβαρά να ξέρεις θα σε διώξω δίχως τύψεις και δε θα τον γλιτώσεις τον καβγά. The only translation I can make of the first sentence is:- ‘If the proofs...

Thanks, cougr! 🤣

Χαχαχα, Πόντιε! Cougr, what is the first line of Vasilis Tstsanis’ Laiko genre song, so that I can find it and read it?

Sorry, cougr! Yes, those at #8. Mea culpa..🤦😥