It's all Greek to me

byfeolgr

1.1K followers

6 years ago

Have you ever used this phrase?

I bet, you have. Hundreds of times.

The image i chose is something familiar to most of you. The Greek sky. the Greek sun, the Greek sea, the Greek simplicity and warmth.

How about the Greek language?

Not a clue, right?

WRONG!

I am proud of two things

1. I live in a country which is consired nature's masterpiece

2. I speak one of the most meaningful languages that exist.

I am not the only one.

You use Greek all the time, You understand and speak Greek without even realizing it.

Oh, you don't believe me, right?

Here is proof.

In 1957 a Greek Prime Minister read the following speech in Washington He supposedly used the English language but he actually spoke Greek. Politicians and economists were his audience. None of them spoke Greek but they all understood him.

Be my guests:

"Kyrie,

It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch and the heresy
of our economic method and policies that we should
agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and
the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic
but my diagnosis would be that politicians are
rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically
stigmatize nomismatic plethora, they energize
it through their tactics and practices. Our policies
should be based more on economic and less on political
criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between
economic strategic and philanthropic scopes.

In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies,
monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities,
our policies have to be more orthological, but
this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia,
which is endemic among academic economists.

Nomismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme.
A greater harmonization between the practices
of the economic and nomismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this we have to synchronize and harmonize
more and more our economic and nomismatic policies
panethnically. These scopes are more practicable
now, when the prognostics of the political end
economic barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didimus organization on this sphere
has been didactic and their gnostic practices
will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and
idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of
the programmed organization will dynamize these
policies.

Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism one
or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy
of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox
economic and nomismatic policies.

I apologize for having tyranized you with my Hellenic
phraseology. In my epilogue I emphasize my eulogy
to the philoxenous aytochtons of this cosmopolitan
metropolis and my encomium to you Kyrie, the stenographers."

I am curious. Did YOU understand him?