To Alexandra: the exact clip is from 1:50 onwards in Easy Greek 19. Greeks are being asked what they like and what they hate about Athens. These are the exact words spoken in the dialogues. One man had just said that the third thing he likes about Athens (they were asked to give three) was: Έχουμε Τσίπρα για κυβέρνηση, όχι; The next man ( a leather-jacketed Jack-the-lad type)** says:- Πολύ όμορφες γυναίκες η Αθήνα…..έτσι, Χάρη; Πόλη όμορφες. Από τη Θεσσαλονίκη έρχομαι αλλά και η Αθήνα δεν πάει πίσω καθόλου. To be accurate he has an inane grin on his face as he speaks but that is his ‘opinion’. Χάρης is the name he gives Dimitri.
Perhaps indeed a poor attempt at being jocular. Thanks, cougr, for that and the names of Χάρης and Χάρις.
** a brash, cocky young man.
BTW: how would Greeks address an unknown person whose name they didn’t know? In Scotland e.g. they often use ‘Jock’ for a name addressed to an unknown man. Κύριε and κυρία. The use of Κύρη would perhaps be a trifle unmannerly, like the English ‘missus’. In England when I was younger living in Lancashire (in the north of England) this in the lowest register would be ‘missus woman’!
