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- This sounds like Adonis G. that far right-wing MP.

- So what?

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โ€œWho is the donkey?โ€

โ€œOur language, who do you think? Me?โ€

โ€œWhatโ€™s wrong with our language?โ€

โ€œItโ€™s 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 โ€˜beliefโ€™. No one seems to care a tuppence about it however, the end result being that whenever the demotic doesnโ€™t suit us we turn to the katharevou-sa. And vice versa. We can never get anywhere that way though.โ€

โ€œYouโ€™re 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, Iโ€™m being notified by the studio that we need to go on a commercial break.โ€

โ€œTo 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? Youโ€™re having a go at our language? You dare forsake all the blood thatโ€™s 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 isnโ€™t the weaker one. Andโ€ฆโ€

โ€œThatโ€™s all the time we have, Mr Panourgias, letโ€™s put a semi-colon on that, hopefully weโ€™ll 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 thatโ€™s our showโ€™s motto, donโ€™t forget. Until you hear from us again, so long.โ€

Hold on, youโ€™re kind of ruining it now. Weaker? How dโ€™you figure?

+ โ€œunder special conditions, itโ€™s true, due to our interlocutorโ€™s persistence with anonym-ity.โ€

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