You're definitely right, DHS, though conversating in english with greeks produced similar results.
("One big bottle of water!"- "???" - "Water!" - "???" - "Soda!" - "???" - "Wasser, Aqua, Agua, Soda, WATER!!!" - "Ah, WATER?!" - "Yes")
"sea war"
"street fighter"
"terrorism"
"crapball" (erm ..sorry. shiteball .. argh no! crudball ... aaargh i cant say it! "that shitty game that the players get enough money each week to run 2 large hospitals for a month")
4 games.
no sign of a car.
why the hell is it set into a steering wheel ????
These are just crappy chinese games, tons of them imported in my country. I can get you several of those for free but, in the end, who wants them?
Romeo Knight, older Greeks are not renowned for their knowledge of English but I would say that the younger ones are generally decent users of the language.
Have you ever tried to communicate in English with a Spanish or an Italian (no offence, my latin soul brothers!)?
nada wrote:Romeo Knight, older Greeks are not renowned for their knowledge of English but I would say that the younger ones are generally decent users of the language.
Have you ever tried to communicate in English with a Spanish or an Italian (no offence, my latin soul brothers!)?
Sorry, I didn't want to discriminate greeks here. Actually I've been twice to Greece now and I absolutely loved it, I'm especially a fan of your food. (viewtopic.php?t=3737)
Regarding the language it all depends where exactly you go in each country, I think.
I never said that you tried to discriminate the Greeks, Romeo Knight. In fact, I didn't even think about it when reading your lines.
I just made some remarks on a thing called "popular misconceptions" (and, believe me, I'm no proud of being Modern Greek AT ALL).