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The 'CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature' aims to facilitate access to Greek literature for speakers of English by providing references to all English-language translations of modern Greek literature and to all studies in English that relate to modern Greek literature from the twelfth century AD...

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Dave Barry’s Year in Review: 2020 was a year of nonstop awfulness BY DAVE BARRY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 We’re trying to think of something nice to say about 2020. OK, here goes: Nobody got killed by the murder hornets. As far as we know. That’s pretty much it. In the past, writing these annual...

It's the Silly Season. Let's play! Only 1 entry per post. Source (& cheat sheet): https://twitter.com/rebeccamakkai/status/1278702702734782465

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes | Όταν σμικρύνομαι στα μάτια όλου του κόσμου, I all alone beweep my outcast state, | μόνος τον εαυτό μου απόβλητο θρηνώ, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, | τη μοίρα μέμφομαι και λοιδορώ το φως μου And look upon myself, and curse my...

... Ιστότοπος Εμμανουήλ Κριαρά από το Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, με δωρεά του Ιδρύματος Σταύρος Νιάρχος. Aριθμεί 6.905 τίτλους και αποτελείται από 11.314 τόμους. Όταν στις 22 Αυγούστου 2014 πέθαινε, σε ηλικία 108 ετών, ο κορυφαίος Έλληνας φιλόλογος Εμμανουήλ Κριαράς, ο πνευματικός, ο...

"Once the work of art is finished, you gotta get wind of where the dude (i.e. the artist) is heading (of their intention). As in art cinema..." (at 2':50") A satire of the arty-farty and the "cultural scene" in general in Greece at the time (not a lot has changed since then, imho, at least...

... China's Zhou Youguang, father of Pinyin writing system, dies aged 111 14 January 2017 Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, has died aged 111. Mr Zhou and a Communist party committee...

... Word of the Year 2016 is... After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to...

Η υπηρεσία μας (Διεύθυνση Ευρωπαϊκών και Διεθνών Θεμάτων, τμήμα Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης), ως η Ελληνική Μονάδα του Ευρωπαϊκού Δικτύου «ΕΥΡΥΔΙΚΗ», στο πλαίσιο των συμβατικών της υποχρεώσεων με τον Εκτελεστικό Οργανισμό Εκπαίδευσης, Οπτικοακουστικών Θεμάτων και Πολιτισμού (EACEA) της Ευρωπαϊκής...

... You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! III, 3, 2492-2495...

... 11 Examples of the Odd Dialect Called EU English, Arika Okrent, mental_floss Every profession has its in-group ways of using language, but not every profession requires native speakers of many different languages to communicate with each other every day. The European Union requires just...

... A Visual History of Homes In America Following the success of their series of posters celebrating iconic structures around New York and around the world, Pop Chart Lab had the idea to go broad on architectural elegance. Their original idea was to highlight all different styles of houses...

... Literary pet peeves: seven reasons to hurl away a book, Caroline Madden, The Irish Times, 9-5-2015 We all have our own pet peeves, things that cause us to toss a novel aside, and not lightly "Tell a dream, lose a reader." Henry James’s advice still rings true today. Of all my literary pet...

... GREEK EXONYMS (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_exonyms Below is a list of modern day Greek language exonyms for European places outside of Greece and Cyprus. Place names that are not mentioned are generally referred to in Greek by their...

... The Definitive List of Social Media Acronyms and Abbreviations, Defined Just today, I found out what SOV means. Researching this post, in fact, was the first time I discovered the definition (SOV = “Share of Voice,” by the way!). I had seen it on social media articles and updates and never...

... Each generation has their own slang and lingo, a language that defines them. Each generation also has a purveyor of cool who creates a language that only the initiated understand. During the 1950s and 60s, Frank Sinatra created a personal lingo that influenced a generation of swanky and...

... Journal Accepts Paper Reading “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” photo credit: David Mazieres and Eddie Kohler. Who says swearing is not scientific? A paper that largely consists of the words “Get me off your fucking mailing list” repeated 863 times has been accepted by a journal that...

Language change is driven by mistakes. If every generation of children perfectly learned what they heard spoken around them, then languages would be exact duplicates of themselves, never changing over the centuries. Clearly, this isn't what happens. As you can see from this list from...