Опять филология

[navratri]

Многие греки говорят, что, мол, у нас с вами, русскими, прям стока общего, что ваще. Я, правда, из общего усматривала только наше размудяйство национального масштаба ;)

Но похожести начинают обнаруживаться. Все ведь помним мифическую музу Каллиопу? Так вот на греческом армейском жаргоне "kalliopi" означает не что иное, как гальюн. Прямо как наше

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again a little bit of history

[anonymous]

Dorogaya Oksanochka iskluchitelno k moemu glubochaishemu k vam uvazeniu - yia ne mog ne viskazat moi commentarii po etomu povodu:

Da uz, greki tochno ne pravilno govoryat - ni u nas s vami a u vas s nami:

1. bolshinstvo ruskix imen sovsem ne ruskie, a grecheskogo proisxozdeniya (nekotorie iz nix) Georgiy, Grigoriy, Ilia, Sofia, Alexei, Petya, Misha, Masha, Vasiliy, Dimitriy, Andrey, Anton, Alexander, Ioan, Ianna, Konstantin, Zoya, Elena, Ira, Kolya, Timothei, Evgeniya, Ekaterina, Leonid, Anastasia and etc...
(yia tut ne otmetil redkie takie kak Athanasiy, Theothan, Stanislav, Elezaveta, Gerasim, Theodor (ruskiy Bogdan), Agafia (ruskaya lubov), Elpida (ruskaya Nadezda) i prochix)

U ruskix voobshe po moemu svoix imen po palcam na odnoi ruke pereschitat - krome konechno Oksana i to ukrainskoe:)
Оксана (Oksana, the most widespread Ukrainian female name)

Eto informacia k razmishleniu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_in_Russian_Empire%2C_Soviet_Union_and_CIS_countries

2. Religion ruskie toze vzyali ot grekov v 988 godu - kreshenie Russi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus%27

3. Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. It was introduced into Kievan Rus' at the time of its conversion to Christianity (988)

Cyrillic alphabet bil priduman grekami Cyrillom i Methodiem - sami eti imena dolzni govorit vam ob etom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cyril

4. velikiy bogatiy ruskiy yazik bil bi ne takim bogatim esli bi v nego ne vkluchalos massa grecheskix slov, kak vprochem i slov iz drugix yiazkov...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language

Best regards - Internally yours Dionisis Papavramidis...

Re: again a little bit of history

[navratri]

Woooooow Dionisi, I'm shocked :))) thanx a bunch again for your kind enlightement of a simple down-to-earth process engineer :)))) In fact none of the posts of mine is meant to belittle the accomplishments of the Greek people in the historical view... I'm just describing my daily routine nothing else.

By the way, my name really has smth to do with Ukraine since I'm half Ukrainian...