The Xenophobe's Guide to the Greeks (Xenophobe's Guides) by Alexandra Fiada

Author:Alexandra Fiada [Fiada, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908120458
Publisher: Oval Projects
Published: 2010-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

The purists complain that the young speak a kind of ‘Greeklish’ and that ‘our beautiful language is going to pot’, while the more tolerant claim that they show an inventiveness for words similar to that of Aristophanes. A ‘war of the languages’ has been raging for ages between the Left-wing and the Right-wing literati. The latter want the Greeks to speak ‘pure’ Greek (the language in which the Gospels were written, or almost), and the former want an oversimplified, colloquial form of ‘demotic’ Greek (that which is spoken in the street), because doing away with the past and its aristocratic language would be really ‘progressive’. It is as if the British suddenly decided to drop the King’s English and start teaching Cockney at their schools.

There is a middle way, but it is ignored by politicians so, depending on the party in power, the Greek language goes back and forth – with the school pupils caught in the middle like the children of divorced parents.

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