Re: CHAT: Vlach (was: Roumania...)

Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> Surprisingly, according to one authority I found, Greeks have even applied
> the term Vlach to Slav-speaking minorities in Greece!
Indeed.  The modern Greek adjective "vlakhikos" means something like
"unintelligible, gobbledy-gook-speaking".  This is then combined with
"frangos" ("fragkos", technically, by Greek orthographic rules) =
"Frank" = "Westerner" to produce the wonderful term "frangovlakhika" for
the practice of writing Greek in Latin letters for use on the
Internet!

See http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Nick-gr.html for Nick Nicholas's
frangovlakhika home page.  The real Greek (in ISO 8859-7) is at
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Nick-hel.html .

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)