Greek alphabet ignorance
Greek alphabet ignorance
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Anyone else in the states annoyed by the new ABC show "GREEK"?
I haven't actually seen the show, just adds. ABC spells "GREEK" with capital Sigmas where the Es go.
I guess the Greek character Epsilon looks too much like an E.
Same stupidity was done in the James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough". The Russian Atomic Energy Department was given the initials Alpha Sigma Delta.
I haven't actually seen the show, just adds. ABC spells "GREEK" with capital Sigmas where the Es go.
I guess the Greek character Epsilon looks too much like an E.
Same stupidity was done in the James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough". The Russian Atomic Energy Department was given the initials Alpha Sigma Delta.





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TygerDawg
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It always really annoys me when I see millimetres expressed as MM instead of mm, although I doubt it can ever have led to someone actually sizing something in Mega-metres!
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since when have Russians abandonned the cyrillic for the greek alphabet?
@richkeoch
about Mm, what about a very well-known word processor that systematically corrects MPa to Mpa?
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Matt
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Are you greek as in a fraternity / sorority back in college? Greek letters are secrets to the frat / sorority and most often mean something else then what is shown. If you listen to many frat names when they say it phonetically, it is the first letter of the greek word of that letter. In most cases it is wrong, but that is on purpose to through you off the real meaning. So the e’s in their title was just keeping up with tradition.
Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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People like me, we don't even notice it (looks ok to me).
People like MJ, notice it doesn't look right
People like Twoballcane, notice it probably wasn't an accident.
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"...that is a real word garbled in some way..."
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GREEK in the Greek alphabet would be written ΓΡΕΕΚ.
Greeks call themselves Hellenes (???????), anyway.
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"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?" Oddball, "Kelly's Heros" 1970
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Solon ????: "? ?????????? ????? ???? ??? ?????? ??????? ???? ?? ?????? ????? ?????????????? "
luismarques
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Solon said: “justice is like a spider trap; only the small flies are arrested”
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MintJulep, It's posts like yours that make me glad I do not have cable TV.
I struggle more with the local ignorance of Greek food where I live. I got spoiled living in Chicago and working a few blocks from Greektown. I wish I had a loaf of bread and a dish of taramosalata from Greek Islands right now, sigh.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taramosalata
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
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I would imagine that this is a local dish in greece, and most greeks wouldnt know what it is anyway.
There are so many local dishes in that country that no-one has heard of in the US, and they often tend to only make it in one area. Have you tried a Kefalona pie?
csd
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Well the parts of it I've been to anyway.
Not that I've been specifically looking for it mind, I can't stand the stuff.
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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According to my latest audio book, The History of Salt, a salted fish roe dish such as taramasalata has been known in Greece since ancient times. The exact recipe has long varied from place to place, and with the advancement of technology. I've had bad taramoslata, usually highly colored with food dye and extended with some unknown muck.
I've never had Kefalonia pie, but it sounds wonderful. Just about anything in puff pastry is wonderful.
I'd cook more Greek dishes, but it requires a crowd to eat it. The last thing I attempted was galactobouriko. It was fair.
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
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You shun cable TV but listen to audio books about salt?
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i had to know the greek alphabet backwards and forwards.
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Costas
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http://www.foundalis.com/lan/grkalpha.htm
Costas
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And I thought Latin was difficult....
Lately I can't see or hear anything Greek without thinking of Michael Constantine in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" spouting off about how everything is derived from something Greek.
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
- Dan Quayle
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You just pointed to an interesting issue;- more English speaking people learn Latin than any other nation. Take my word, non of the Latin American countries speak latin at all, except few catholic priests.
cheers,
gr2vessles
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- Dan Quayle
That just goes to show what a fool he is.
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Hg
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The quote I put up however turns out to not be true. It was apparently a joke made about him by a fellow Republican congressperson but because DQ had made so many malapropisms and verbal mistakes, everyone believed it.
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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Perhaps I come from a fierce and soldierly nation too...
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Of course fish roe, raw oysters, tobacco smoke, and Greek (the language that is) are all "acquired" tastes.
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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My Big Greek Wedding (is that right)is a natural for the same sigma and if it is a Russian film then turn all the "Rs" backwards, actually spelling it out in Cyrillic be too confusing for the public. Hollywood deemed that the title of the play "The Madness of George III" should become film "The Madness of King George" allegedly because most (US) cinema goers are so used to sequels (Jaws; JAWS II etc) that they would wonder what happened to "The Madness of George" and "The Madness of George II".
Now I don't know how true these stories are, any more than I know if it's true that when given the plot synopsis for a life story of Beethoven (Composer goes deaf, cuts legs of piano and tries to listen to the music through the floorbaords), said Great! but who will we get to do the music?"
Anyway, what ever it is that turns the brains of Hollywood producers and admen to mush, just hope it doesn't infect engineers. Don't get irritated, just be glad it isn't you who have to invent words like "Minisode" and play games with letters...probably the same stable as the PR guy who decided to turn one of the Bs round in ABBA which is kinda stupid because while this might work fork Russian, it does nothing for Swedish.
(Oh, I see, a palindrome into a mirror image...OK then, but its still kinda stupid).
JMW
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Yes, and I knew it as soon as I hit the "post" key, not one second before and not one second after.
OK, OK. So you guys are getting a proper diet now and every spelling mistake doesn't any more provoke a 200-post thread on spell checkers, and we don't want the same thing about the Cambridge language gimmick again do we?.
But no one can tell what will spark of another riot and I don't want it to be me; Mr Murphy has warned us all before about the noise we make and he can be a tough cookie when he wants to be, so I know, I spelled it wrong. I'm sorry. And in the language forum too.
So sue me.
JMW
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Sorcerors Stone V Philosophers Stone anyone.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Hg
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