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Post by greekslav on Jan 14, 2008 12:23:19 GMT -5
Kanaris you got to love her effort though Axxx what are we doing on here ? We could be at the French rivera sipping some drinks while the rest go and figure. We Greeks have earned it, thanks to our ancestors. Thanks to our Greek ancestors, some of us have a gift for dialogue. äéÜëïãïò comes from the verb äéáëÝãïìáé, which means discuss matters with others seeking the truth. Dialoque is great, for it reveals those that create alternate universes for their enjoyment. Through dialogue, we have found those, in this thread, that wrongfully give credit to others and support it. Their reply is "What are we doing here. We could be on the French riviera sipping some drinks", which means "We have been caught. Let's get out of here". Dialogue!!! You gotta love it!
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Post by slowdent on Jan 14, 2008 12:56:23 GMT -5
Albanese hoeny
The professors in charge of the program estimate that the Greek words will surpass 90 million, against 9 millions words of the Latin.
heres where I say "yes you are right"
parta mori arrosti
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Post by slowdent on Jan 14, 2008 13:00:26 GMT -5
strathge Through dialogue, we can also realise that some people are so closed minded that it is futile to talk to then. A good example lies in the previous page of the thread, where we see miles of pasted text just to substantiate a brainfart.
Hence those people need the alternate universe, otherwise the discussion will easily degenerate, giving joy to certain mentaly unstable trolls of this forum. u get the point?
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Post by albanesehoney on Jan 14, 2008 15:08:43 GMT -5
Albanese hoeny The professors in charge of the program estimate that the Greek words will surpass 90 million, against 9 millions words of the Latin. heres where I say "yes you are right" parta mori arrosti mos han mut....You need some help and need to lay off debaTe if you resort to non sequitors.
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Post by slowdent on Jan 14, 2008 16:04:10 GMT -5
albhoney there is a greek phrase for you:
isa mori xamoura
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Post by Arxileas on Jan 14, 2008 16:14:11 GMT -5
Kanaris you got to love her effort though Axxx what are we doing on here ? We could be at the French rivera sipping some drinks while the rest go and figure. We Greeks have earned it, thanks to our ancestors. Thanks to our Greek ancestors, some of us have a gift for dialogue. äéÜëïãïò comes from the verb äéáëÝãïìáé, which means discuss matters with others seeking the truth. Dialoque is great, for it reveals those that create alternate universes for their enjoyment. Through dialogue, we have found those, in this thread, that wrongfully give credit to others and support it. Their reply is "What are we doing here. We could be on the French riviera sipping some drinks", which means "We have been caught. Let's get out of here". Dialogue!!! You gotta love it! What’s your opinion on FYROMs claims ? Also what's your opinion on that Macedonia flag on your signature? Shouldn’t it read FYROM instead as per U.N. You know I would have to ask AAdmin to remove this propaganda and a provocative signature since you refuse to remove it. Since it violates Hellenic name and cultural history that goes with it. You mate are no intellect if you were half of an intellect you'll realise your misusing an Hellenic name and has nothing to do with FYRO" Your way of free dialogue is to spread propagandas, what else is it ? Can't see any other purpose for you to be on here, and since you claim to advocate truth Mate you should examine FYRO" claims not us. Is all amusing, while I sit here see all the clowning going on.
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Post by albanesehoney on Jan 14, 2008 16:19:06 GMT -5
strathge Through dialogue, we can also realise that some people are so closed minded that it is futile to talk to then. A good example lies in the previous page of the thread, where we see miles of pasted text just to substantiate a brainfart. Hence those people need the alternate universe, otherwise the discussion will easily degenerate, giving joy to certain mentaly unstable trolls of this forum. u get the point? SLOW, stop attacking the debator and stick to the subject. where's your links to 9 million? In your other post you had a link to a greek govt tourism commercial not a valid and well reasoned essay on the greek language. Now, get to it and repost the link.
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Post by slowdent on Jan 15, 2008 2:52:35 GMT -5
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Post by greekslav on Jan 15, 2008 3:32:56 GMT -5
Thanks to our Greek ancestors, some of us have a gift for dialogue. äéÜëïãïò comes from the verb äéáëÝãïìáé, which means discuss matters with others seeking the truth. Dialoque is great, for it reveals those that create alternate universes for their enjoyment. Through dialogue, we have found those, in this thread, that wrongfully give credit to others and support it. Their reply is "What are we doing here. We could be on the French riviera sipping some drinks", which means "We have been caught. Let's get out of here". Dialogue!!! You gotta love it! What’s your opinion on FYROMs claims ? Also what's your opinion on that Macedonia flag on your signature? Shouldn’t it read FYROM instead as per U.N. You know I would have to ask AAdmin to remove this propaganda and a provocative signature since you refuse to remove it. Since it violates Hellenic name and cultural history that goes with it. You mate are no intellect if you were half of an intellect you'll realise your misusing an Hellenic name and has nothing to do with FYRO" Your way of free dialogue is to spread propagandas, what else is it ? Can't see any other purpose for you to be on here, and since you claim to advocate truth Mate you should examine FYRO" claims not us. Is all amusing, while I sit here see all the clowning going on. I would be very happy to answer your questions as it may pertain to the subject of this thread.
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Post by greekslav on Jan 15, 2008 12:01:13 GMT -5
Slowdent, your link reaffirms that the total amount of text in the 10,000 works from 3,000 authors are 75 millio:
"Its collection at present includes nearly 10, 000 works from over 3, 000 authors - in excess of 75 million words - disseminated on compact disc."
For example, the Bible has a certain amount of words in it, as in any book, or works.
The statement does not state that the Greek language has 75 million words.
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Post by slowdent on Jan 15, 2008 13:08:08 GMT -5
Strathge
you are right. It just says The TLG word index encompasses 1.2 million distinct Greek word forms out of a total of 75 million words.
which demolishes claims of forum members who begged to differ stating that
Enjoy
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Post by greekslav on Jan 15, 2008 16:07:09 GMT -5
How many words are there in the English language?"There is no single sensible answer to this question. It is impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it is so hard to decide what counts as a word. Is dog one word, or two (a noun meaning 'a kind of animal', and a verb meaning 'to follow persistently')? If we count it as two, then do we count inflections separately too (dogs plural noun, dogs present tense of the verb). Is dog-tired a word, or just two other words joined together? Is hot dog really two words, since we might also find hot-dog or even hotdog? It is also difficult to decide what counts as 'English'. What about medical and scientific terms? Latin words used in law, French words used in cooking, German words used in academic writing, Japanese words used in martial arts? Do you count Scots dialect? Youth slang? Computing jargon? The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective). This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million." Is it true that English has the most words of any language?"This question is practically impossible to answer, for the reasons set out in the answer to How many words are there in the English language? However, it seems quite probable that English has more words than most comparable world languages. The reason for this is historical. English was originally a Germanic language, related to Dutch and German, and it shares much of its grammar and basic vocabulary with those languages. However, after the Norman Conquest in 1066 it was hugely influenced by Norman French, which became the language of the ruling class for a considerable period, and by Latin, which was the language of scholarship and of the Church. Very large numbers of French and Latin words entered the language. Consequently, English has a much larger vocabulary than either the Germanic languages or the members of the Romance language family to which French belongs. English is also very ready to accommodate foreign words, and as it has become an international language, it has absorbed vocabulary from a large number of other sources. This does, of course, assume that you ignore 'agglutinative' languages such as Finnish, in which words can be stuck together in long strings of indefinite length, and which therefore have an almost infinite number of 'words'." What is the proportion of English words of French, Latin, or Germanic origin?"It is very hard to make this estimate, particularly as many words reached English, for example, from Latin by way of Norman French. However, the result of a computerized survey of roughly 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd edition) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973). They reckoned the proportions as follows: Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24% French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3% Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25% Greek: 5.32% No etymology given: 4.03% Derived from proper names: 3.28% All other languages contributed less than 1%" www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/mostwords?view=uk
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Post by greekslav on Jan 15, 2008 16:33:31 GMT -5
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Post by Niklianos on Jan 15, 2008 18:38:16 GMT -5
The reason why Greek has upward of 90 million words is it's ability to place two unrelated words together to create a new one. I am quite certain that no other language in the world has that ability.
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Post by rex362 on Jan 15, 2008 19:31:31 GMT -5
"two unrelated words together to create a new one."
oh yea....I saw that on "My fat Greek wedding"
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Post by greekslav on Jan 15, 2008 19:34:40 GMT -5
English can do that, too. Take, for example:
Hot and Dog = Hotdog
Night and Light = nightlight
Day and Time = Daytime
Bath and Tub = bathtub
Shoe and box = shoebox
birth and day = birthday
I can go on and on.
Still, I do not believe that the Greek language has 5 million different words.
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Post by albanesehoney on Jan 15, 2008 20:58:47 GMT -5
albhoney there is a greek phrase for you: isa mori xamoura Xamoures einai to soi sou... What the hell is this Xamoures slow? Skip Navigation
Oxford Journals Contact Us Oxford Journals Humanities International Journal of Lexicography Volume 13, Number 1 Pp. 1-11 This item requires a subscription* to International Journal of Lexicography Online. ‘Noûs, INTO CHAOS’: THE CREATION OF THE THESAURUS OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE Pantelia Int J Lexicography.2000; 13: 1-11 Sign In User Name Sign in without cookies. . Password Remember my user name & password. Forgot your user name or password? Purchase Short-Term Access Pay per View - If you would like to purchase short-term access you must have a personal account. Please sign in with your personal user name and password or register to obtain a user name and password for free. You will be presented with Pay per Article options after you have successfully signed in with a personal account. Athens Users Sign in via Athens: Access is available using your Athens username and password. Contact your library if you do not have an Athens username and password. List of Athens registered sites, including contact details. Register or Subscribe Subscribe to the Journal - Subscribe to the print and/or online journal. Register - Register online for access to selected content and to use Pay per View. Registration is free. This Article Abstract Copyright © 2008 Oxford University Press Oxford Journals Oxford University Press Nowhere does it say greek has 90 mil. words. To the rest of you who like to believe in myths...UCI states that the texts they have put on their digital library contains...90 mil words of text....that's it...not 90 million variations of the same greek word. lolol Wake up...Greek still has a phoenician variation on a Semitic Alphabet. lolol So much for your creativeness...ancient greeks copied more than the romans.
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Post by Kanaris on Jan 15, 2008 21:05:28 GMT -5
albhoney there is a greek phrase for you: isa mori xamoura Xamoures einai to soi sou... Bravo Honey... we will make a GreekHoney out of you... ;D
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Post by rex362 on Jan 15, 2008 21:09:10 GMT -5
ahahhahaha
you told him good ....
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Post by albanesehoney on Jan 15, 2008 21:13:22 GMT -5
;D ;D
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