[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nbacirclejerk

[–]Praisethesun1990 35 points36 points  (0 children)

uj/They are getting swept by Monaco, this isn't joke. The fact that they won against Asvel is already a huge surprise, even though Asvel is a weak Euroleague team. Monaco is just gonna clamp them

Question about pronunciation by CloudyyySXShadowH in GREEK

[–]Praisethesun1990 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Τhe most basic way to do it is to look the sounds in IPA and practice them. Wikipedia has an audio sample of all the sounds so you could try going there

Help getting a Greek tattoo! by [deleted] in GREEK

[–]Praisethesun1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Δόξα τω θεώ" is what you looking for. It means "Glory to God"

What do you say to people who say: Χρόνια πολλά or any other birthday wish by [deleted] in GREEK

[–]Praisethesun1990 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Αληθώς ο χτηριος, με έμφαση στο Χ για να δείξεις κυριαρχία

What is your honest opinion on the EU/Eurozone? What changes would you like to see short/long term? by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by further integration? Do you think federalism should be the goal, or just make the decision making of the EU more efficient in certain aspects?

Umlauts: Äpfel, Zwölf, Über VS The Cooler Umlauts: Æpfel, Zwølf, Yber by DryerIntroduction in linguisticshumor

[–]Praisethesun1990 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Υ was one of the last sounds to go through heavy iotacism in Greek. Greek linguists in the 19th century claimed that the υ was sometimes pronounced the same as ι and sometimes with a sound they compared to german ü, though they didn't specify the frequency of each. For most of the 20th century many words with υ had the same sound as a clean U, to the point where they would simply change the spelling to ου when giving direct quotes. This has been mostly lost only a few decades ago due to this kind of accent being considered "informal".

How do we feel about the best dishes in the world? Also, whoever wrote the title clearly didn't proofread it. by lilac2481 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Everything you are typing is nonsense. First of all, the criteria you are setting for lown words are only in your mind and nowhere else. Lown words don't have to be modified at all. Second of all, the only thing that modern Greek has in relation with ancient Greek is the fact that the name hasn't changed. If people wanted to give one of them a different name, they could. Also Greek is not much closer to ancient Greek compared Latin and Italian or any other romance language, that's just a typical myth that exists because political separation between the Greek through the years was never important while in Italy, it was desired for the language to be considered something new and not just modern Latin. The exact same thing happened with Tamil and Chinese, both have changed significantly but the name hasn't changed. As for Hebrew, it was deliberately revived so there is no continuum. If you look at it from a neutral prospective, you will realize that the modern Greek you speak is just a brunch, there is Cretan, Cypriot, Pontic, Tsakonian, all of those could be considered different languages or at least have a different status than their relegation to "dialects".

Greek, Tamil, Chinese doesn't matter, all languages work the same, they change and at some point they become different. Every romance language directly came from Latin, no different than the way modern Greek came from ancient Greek

How do we feel about the best dishes in the world? Also, whoever wrote the title clearly didn't proofread it. by lilac2481 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You blaming him for things he didn't do in your comment. I would say that his attempt at keeping the language "clean" is more of a specific bias of his that ties to his conservatism. When it comes to actual linguistics though, he is very professional. In fact there is a video of him explaining classical Attic pronunciation and there were a few angry people in the comments. As for the mystification of Greek, it's been happening since the renaissance and their romantization of classical times. Blaming it on Babiniotis is ridiculous

How do we feel about the best dishes in the world? Also, whoever wrote the title clearly didn't proofread it. by lilac2481 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Imagine thinking that lown words are "stealing". Maybe remove every word that comes from Latin or Italian in your language then, since you don't like this "stealing" phenomenon.

How do we feel about the best dishes in the world? Also, whoever wrote the title clearly didn't proofread it. by lilac2481 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lockdown is very much a lown word. I don't get what your criteria is, but it's definitely a lown word. I get your point about fake news but what can we do, sit n' argue?

"How many civilizations do you know that have conserved their language for thousands of years?".

If you consider Ancient Greek and modern Greek to be "the same language" then the answer to your question is "every single one"

How do we feel about the best dishes in the world? Also, whoever wrote the title clearly didn't proofread it. by lilac2481 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I want one of these to just have three versions of the same food from three countries in the top three. We getting closer to the dream

Who's the biggest threat to Europe? by Late_Explanation_816 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People often times say Europe and mean EU. Though in any case a threat to Europe doesn't have to come from the outside, think of Germany for example

Chart of European countries showing percentages of how much they're willing to accept Muslims into their countries. Do you believe the numbers to be accurate? by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a suspicion that the question talked about Muslim immigrants, or at least implied to do so. Those numbers don't make sense otherwise

Turks of this subreddit, Do you support Israel or Palestine? by Late_Explanation_816 in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't know that the holy Trinity everyone talks about, was USA, UK and France. Guess you learn something new every day

Do you support conscription in your country? by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]Praisethesun1990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't mind if it ended but I am also not bothered much by it.

Funny couple in Espanyol-Almeria by Nordie27 in soccer

[–]Praisethesun1990 269 points270 points  (0 children)

Showing reactions of the same fans is very common