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greek words used in kibrizlija
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Dhavlos



Joined: 13 Aug 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:39 pm    Post subject: greek words used in kibrizlija  

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/words.txt

Interesting that some words are used which are the same...even 'religious' ones like

panagia mou

and things like

bango(worktop), baboucha(shoes) etc..
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Crash Test Dummy



Joined: 25 Sep 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:47 pm    Post subject:  

these greek words are like the village talk. they cross quite often. Greece Greek is probably miles different
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Gardash



Joined: 20 Jan 2006
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:39 pm    Post subject:  

All the above are 'Greece Greek'

apart from baboutcha which is 'baboutsia'.

We use a few Turkish swear words!
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