Do You Speak Greek

by Steve Demakopoulos

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885778511
• ISBN13: 9781885778512
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Seaburn Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

a lighthearted Look at the evolution of the Greek Language

Do You Speak Greek? is a mixture of scholarship and entertainment, is chock full of information. Suffice it to say that it's the only place where one could learn that alogon, the Greek word for horse, evolved from alogo zo-on (irrational animal) _The Greek American Magazine

Will make you love the greek language

From a visit to the podiatrist for a simple diagnosis of abasia, to the neighborhood diner, where the mouth watering suvlaki is dripping from the grill, at every turn, the greek language is spoken. Whether consciously by a Greek, who migrated to America for a better life, or unconsciously by the rest of us, our dialects and ethnic tongues are supplemented and enriched by the language of Plato. The glossa of the Hellenes from Homer to Cavafy (Kabafi), is alive, and yet finds room for metamorphosis into Gringlish, (an amalgam of Greek and English) spoken by the same apogeny of Ippocrates and Socrates, who migrated to the neo-cosmo. Do you Speak Greek is a mere apocalypse, a paradigm of the language which is an inexhaustible reservoir for modern languages, again immortalizing as with the gift of the Olympic games and Democracy. The rich language of the Hellenes will forever remain a gift to the orama of man.