Paphos People

Kalimera my dear friends,
how are we all today .. ?

Has lollipop got over her jitters ?
I am sure she has or will ..
how can anyone doubt whether moving to cyprus
is the right thing or not..

I love it here

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Kalimera Neil - what a lovely day for gardening - any news about my fruit trees?
Ruth

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Ruth x

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum

let me do that now... give me 30 minutes

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Nice to see that Neil has taken on the job of posting a useful Greek phrase every day - well done ! !

Efkhareesto

Alastair

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Alastair

Nil illigitimae carborundum

How to remember Greek words using word association

A ferrets toe = Efkhareesto

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Kalimera All - from a beautiful sunny Peyia.........

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Molly

Treat others as you want to be treated

Kalimera from a bright sunny wales!!

8 days to go and i will be waking up in bright sunny Peyia....woot woot!!

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Sam x

Morning all. I have my internet back again. Hurray!!

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

Hiya Verity, glad you're up & running again, well your internet anyway wouldn't want to see you running with that gammy knee of your's

I don't know much about greek/cypriot but shouldn't the term be:

Kalimera Sas

As you're saying good morning to more than one person

Someone with better knowledge will correct me if I'm wrong

I thought Kalimera Sas was to people that you dont know very well....i may be wrong though!!

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Sam x

Hello everyone from a sunny (but with threatening dark cloud) Hull, Yorkshire.

Julie

You maybe right too I've no real grasp of the language, so please let me know if I'm wrong

TUT TUT how long we lived in CYPRUS and dont no how to say good morning

A ferrets toe = Efkhaeesto thats good can we have more like that makes me and learning it to.

yasu.
andy.

Kalimera Neil! and all...

Yes Lolly is over her jitters but has boxes, bin liners and suitcases coming out of her ears!

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Sas is used if there is more than one person.

Up here in the sticks they just say Ya.

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

Wha-Hoo I was right then

SO can you kalispera sas. to say good eve to lots off people,
and yasu sas. got to learn this greek cypriot lingo.

andy

Yes.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

Except that if you say yasoo you don't say yasoo sas, you say yasas.

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

Kalimera Sas, me leneh Trish, poss sas leneh? (Spelling might not be quite correct but I have spelt it the way it is said - I think).

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"Your dog is your friend, your partner, your defender. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true until the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

dakse but I only want to say hello


andy,

Sorry folks but its Kalispera Sas now

Kallisepra everyone warm and sunny in pegia pegging out washing ahhhhhhh life Alex x

ni Kalispera Pete segala

Trish - you already know that my name is Verity.

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

http://coecyp.blogspot.com

Ναι αγαθό, εσείς

We are all going to have to get the Kalispera correct. I was informed by a local that it is only used after sunset. Kalimera is used up until then, so if somebody knows Greek on here well enough please let us all know.

Don't mean to contradict Pete, but I would just like to know what is the correct terminology.

Verity I know - just trying to show off the only bit of Greek I really know, apart from es si kala - answer kala, polee kala or etsi ketsi (so so) - I like the last one and then of course you reply es si. The whole of my Greek apart from yodi (why) that I can remember, but can understand more.

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"Your dog is your friend, your partner, your defender. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true until the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

I use Kalimera up till mid day, Yasou/Yasas from then till evening, Kalispera then Kalinichta, breaking the day up, seems to have worked till now.

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John

In Arduis Fidelis

sounds good to me.

Kalimera - good day
Yiasou - hi/bye singular ("For you" is the direct jibberish translation)
Yiasas - hi/bye polite/plural
Yia - hi/bye "common slang" / lazy ... but yia as a word means "for"
Kalispera - good evening
Kalinichta - good night

Some other common ones easy to learn ..

Yiamas - cheers ("for us" direct translation)
Yiati - why ("for what" direct translation)
Boo - where
eisai - you are/are you singlular
eisaste - you are/are you plural
eimai - i am
kala - good
entaxi - ok
nai - yes
oxi - no
oi - no common slang/lazy

Its direct translation suggests it should be but i rarely hear it all day, kalimera always seems to be used in the morning or perhaps "before lunch" ?? Then kalispera once getting dark ... can use yiasas/sou all day.

Yia - hi/bye "common slang" / lazy ... but yia as a word means "for"

So does that mean I'm a for for - granny - yiayia?

A couple of my favourite words to say is nosocomeo (sp) the word for hospital and aftoginido (sp) - car

carollynne

I studied Spanish for 4yrs thinking we were going to live in Spain Doh. Another craft moment comes to mind. Marj

My favourite word (in gringlish) is

Zaharoplasteeo (cake shop )

Jean

Jean, Periptero is so much easier but not so sweet

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"Your dog is your friend, your partner, your defender. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true until the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"

Good morning, kalispera all.

Bit cloudy today.

Just heard that it might rain Sunday night.

Καλημέρα σε σας όλες!
Good morning to you all!

Ο σημερινός καιρός είναι νεφελώδης αλλά ηλιόλουστος,
Today’s weather is cloudy but sunny,

Θα ανυπομονήσω να κουβεντιάσω σε σας όλοι κατά τη διάρκεια της ημέρας!
I’ll look forward to chatting to you all during the day!

I tell you what, these translators are pretty cool