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Ralph Hancock | 1 Apr 2008 02:36

European Union plans Greek spelling reform

EU 'Harmonisation' Plans for Greek Spelling Revealed

Strasbourg, 01/04/2008

*The EU's Committee for Language Harmonisation has today announced
radical plans for the reform of Greek spelling to align it with the
united European ideal of the 21st century.*

by Pleres Vlakas

At a conference in Strasbourg yesterday, Linguistic Commissioner
Hervidor Inalambrico told the press:

'After a long-term round of far-reaching in-depth consultations, both
in committee and with the public at large, we have established that
there is an urgent and widely felt popular need to reduce the
historical linguistic deficit suffered by the Greek people, and we are
therefore taking prompt steps to rectify this unfortunate situation
before it escalates into a massive social problem.

'Naturally, to minimise any potential disturbance to our fellow
citizens of the European Union, we have no intention of introducing
these reforms abruptly. Rather, we intend to roll out our improvements
on a gradual basis over sucessive time periods, so that the population
will have ample opportunities to acclimatise itself to them.

'In the first stage of our plan, to be introduced in 2010, we shall
add the following letters to the Greek alphabet, to make it more
suitable for rendering the sounds of other languages: b, d, h and w.
The capital of b will be written as Ь, and the capital of h as Һ, in
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Edwin Menes | 1 Apr 2008 03:00
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Re: European Union plans Greek spelling reform

It would appear that our old friend Ben Trovato is alive and well and has a new alias, although he has jumped
the gun in this hemisphere.

>>> Ralph Hancock <ralph.hancock <at> GOOGLEMAIL.COM> 03/31/08 7:36 PM >>>
EU 'Harmonisation' Plans for Greek Spelling Revealed

Strasbourg, 01/04/2008

*The EU's Committee for Language Harmonisation has today announced
radical plans for the reform of Greek spelling to align it with the
united European ideal of the 21st century.*

by Pleres Vlakas
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Judith P. Hallett | 1 Apr 2008 04:41
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Call for Papers: 2008 CAAS Meeting October 10-11 in Princeton, NJ

A reminder about upcoming deadlines for the fall CAAS meeting in
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J. L. Speranza | 1 Apr 2008 03:26
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More Geometrico

I thank again M. Chase for his comments. I was re-reading his post, 41456,  
and among the interesting comments he writes: "Aristotle is not talking about  
"ordinary language", but about *technical geometrical* language (hypotheses,  
definitions,  postulates). ... That's what's done by *syllogistics*."

I was thinking ... Surely I'd like to quote from Grice, "System Q" -- a  
system he developed to honour Quine (in the Davidson/Hintikka festchrift -- and  
which G. Myro, of UC/Berkeley re-developed into "System G".  The point  being 
that in the structuring of a formal language we _need_ 'definitions',  
'postulates', even 'hypotheses' -- even if they are seen as  'introduction/elimination 
rules' for the quantifiers or the connectives, say.  Another Gricean 
illustration of this would be his treatment of Aristotelian  _essentialism_ (in terms 
of postulates, definitions, hypotheses, theorems,  axioms, and corollaries), 
in A. Code, "Aristotle: Essence and Accident", in the  PGRICE festschrift. I 
haven't checked the root of the 'more geometrico' that  Spinoza was talking 
about, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a classical one.  I see Spinoza titled 
his thing, "Ethica more geometrico demonstrata". So here we  would have 
"Logica more geometrico demonstrata" which _does_ sound more like a  redundancy, 
granted. 

J. L. 

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Lampros F. Kallenos | 1 Apr 2008 07:29
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Zyl Dassen, PLHRHS HMERWN KAI EN GHRA KALW

Zyl Dassen "Passed Away"

31 Mar 2008 22:03:00
Sources: ΝΕΤ, ΝΕΤ 105.8

Zyl Dassen, the man, who fell in love with Melina
Mercouri and Greece, passed away at the age of 97 at
the hospital, were he was treated.

He was born in 1911, in Connecticut, US and was the 8th
child of a Jewish- Rusian immigrant. He lived in
Harlem, New York and Hollywood from where he was forced
to leave during the dark era of McCarthianism and to
seek his fate in Paris and London. He married Melina
Mercouri in 1966 and since then he adopted the Greek
citizenship and shared his wife’s vision for the return
of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. He impressed with
his skills as movie and play director. Melina Mercouri
starred in his movies "Never on Sunday", the first
movie he shot in Greece, in 1960, "Top Kapi" and
"Faedra". He was awarded at the Cannes Festival for his
film "Rififi", one of the best film noir, of the world
cinema.

Since his wife died, he founded the Melina Mercouri
Foundation aimed at the creation of the new Acropolis
Museum and the projection of Greek culture.

http://news.ert.gr/en/c/4/31849.asp
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Sue Day | 1 Apr 2008 10:42
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Please note the date.........

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Hancock <ralph.hancock <at> GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
To: CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU
Sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 1:36
Subject: [CLASSICS-L] European Union plans Greek spelling reform

EU 'Harmonisation' Plans for Greek Spelling Revealed
Strasbourg, 01/04/2008
*The EU's Committee for Language Harmonisation has today announced
adical plans for the reform of Greek spelling to align it with the
nited European ideal of the 21st century.*
by Pleres Vlakas
At a conference in Strasbourg yesterday, Linguistic Commissioner
ervidor Inalambrico told the press:
'After a long-term round of far-reaching in-depth consultations, both
n committee and with the public at large, we have established that
here is an urgent and widely felt popular need to reduce the
istorical linguistic deficit suffered by the Greek people, and we are
herefore taking prompt steps to rectify this unfortunate situation
efore it escalates into a massive social problem.
'Naturally, to minimise any potential disturbance to our fellow
itizens of the European Union, we have no intention of introducing
hese reforms abruptly. Rather, we intend to roll out our improvements
n a gradual basis over sucessive time periods, so that the population
ill have ample opportunities to acclimatise itself to them.
'In the first stage of our plan, to be introduced in 2010, we shall
dd the following letters to the Greek alphabet, to make it more
uitable for rendering the sounds of other languages: b, d, h and w.
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Robert Bethune | 1 Apr 2008 14:06
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Re: "Topos analuomenos": from the Griceans to the Grecians -- and back

Has this sort of hostility ever been directed toward any other member of the
list? 

Robert Bethune
http://www.freshwaterseas.com
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From: Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group
[mailto:CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU] On Behalf Of Al Schlaf
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:55 PM
To: CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] "Topos analuomenos": from the Griceans to the
Grecians -- and back

>>>Is it just me, or do other readers often get the feeling that after
having expended the effort to carefully read through one of JLS' posts,
there is usually less there than meets the eye ?<<<<<

Indeed, which is why a good many just hit the delete button when his
logorrhea pops up.

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From: "Michael Chase" <goya <at> UVIC.CA>
To: <CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] "Topos analuomenos": from the Griceans to the 
Grecians -- and back
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Terrence Lockyer | 1 Apr 2008 13:02
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Re: European Union plans Greek spelling reform

As I expect Ralph Hancock and others will be aware, 
this particular meme has been a feature of linguistic 
Aprilfoolery for some years now:  here is another that, 
from the file date on my e-copy, I assume I first 
received more or less exactly nine years ago:

Euro-English

The European Commission have just announced an 
agreement whereby English will be the official language 
of the EU rather than German, which was the other 
possibility.  As part of the negotiations, Her 
Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had 
some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year 
phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English":

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". 
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with 
joy.  The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". 
This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 
less letter.  There will be growing publik enthusiasm 
in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be 
replaced with the "f".  This will make words like 
"fotograf" 20% shorter.  In the 3rd year, publik 
akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach 
the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. 
Governments will enkourage the removal of double 
letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate 
speling.  Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the 
silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they
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Patrick Rourke | 1 Apr 2008 16:05

Re: "Topos analuomenos": from the Griceans to the Grecians -- and back

Far, far worse. Remember that some of us have been subscribed for nearly 16
years.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Robert Bethune <classics-l4bob <at> comcast.net>
wrote:

> Has this sort of hostility ever been directed toward any other member of
> the
> list?
>
>
> Robert Bethune
> http://www.freshwaterseas.com
> 2401 Colony Court, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
> 734-276-8562
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group
> [mailto:CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU] On Behalf Of Al Schlaf
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:55 PM
> To: CLASSICS-L <at> LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] "Topos analuomenos": from the Griceans to the
> Grecians -- and back
>
> >>>Is it just me, or do other readers often get the feeling that after
> having expended the effort to carefully read through one of JLS' posts,
> there is usually less there than meets the eye ?<<<<<
>
> Indeed, which is why a good many just hit the delete button when his
> logorrhea pops up.
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