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- This sounds like Adonis G. that far right-wing MP.
- So what?
Simos Panopoulos - Look at that
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โWho is the donkey?โ
โOur language, who do you think? Me?โ
โWhatโs wrong with our language?โ
โItโs extremely problematic. Where do I even start. With contract verbs it is an absolute pandemonium, with the deponent ones total chaos, with their aug-ment complete mayhem, with the middle voice past progressive an utter mess, participles are conspicuous by their absence, which and that are ubiquitous, while the female gender terminating in -ฮนฯ has become a matter of โbeliefโ. No one seems to care a tuppence about it however, the end result being that whenever the demotic doesnโt suit us we turn to the katharevou-sa. And vice versa. We can never get anywhere that way though.โ
โYouโre on a roll, I see, I must have pulled on a sensi-tive cord. Are the feminists not right, at least? Is there not a misogynistic undertone in your work as well? Promptly though, Iโm being notified by the studio that we need to go on a commercial break.โ
โTo begin with, I am a feminist myself, in the sense that I stand for complete equality between the two sexes. In everything. As well as, therefore, the right
Are you completely nuts? Youโre having a go at our language? You dare forsake all the blood thatโs been spilt for its sake?
A fucking mess, maybe?
- What is it you want after all, a return to katharevousa?
- I wish I knew what I wanted.
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for one to be sarcastic about the other. After all, sar-casm is the salt of literature. From thereon, however, if in my book I rubbed salt in one of the two sexesโ wounds, deep down it isnโt the weaker one. Andโฆโ
โThatโs all the time we have, Mr Panourgias, letโs put a semi-colon on that, hopefully weโll talk again at an-other opportunity in the near future. Dear friends, we welcomed today the controversial author Simos Pa-nourgias who, with his book Look at that, caused a frenzy. We will be together again next week, same day and time, with yet again another exceptional guest who tells it like it is. Because thatโs our showโs motto, donโt forget. Until you hear from us again, so long.โ
Hold on, youโre kind of ruining it now. Weaker? How dโyou figure?
+ โunder special conditions, itโs true, due to our interlocutorโs persistence with anonym-ity.โ
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