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    Posted: 04-Jul-2005 at 09:49
Phallanx,
There are those who argue that those greek words were adopted just for prestige purposes. It's like here in Greece that we had used foreign words in the past to sound more sophisticated.
Personally I do not agree with this view, but there are those who will present it.
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Originally posted by kotumeyil

I think it's wrong to claim any ethnicity or "nation" for a humanoid that lived 1,000,000 years ago.

I don't suppose anyone claims that!

At least I hope not

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Originally posted by kotumeyil

I think it's wrong to claim any ethnicity or "nation" for a humanoid that lived 1,000,000 years ago. Even the purest ethnicity we know in the history must be the result of an interbreeding between humanoids...



Well of course I don't claim any humanoid from 1.000.000yrs ago to be our Hellinic ancestor. I was simply playing with the idea of inventing Kebab. Logic says that he who lit the first or second fire was the inventor, most probably out of pure luck but it must have been him.
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Coffee is Arabic... whatever...

In fact it isnt. It is from Ethiopia or another east African region. It was firstly used in Yemen during the reign of Ottomans, and the western world learned it from us. So Arabs are the introducers, we are the contributers.

And Phallanx, you got me wrong again, I didnt say we invented asphalt or smthing like that. I said we invented that practical and cheap way of highway architecture for 3rd world countries, in the 20th century, and that is a fact. So kind of a joke, showing how our tax moneys are wasted for 3 year lifed cheap roads...



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Originally posted by Menippos

Well, I am sure that fire was not a greek creation.

But Greek fire was


But was it? The rumours are that the recipe had been around for ages, but only the Byzantines understood to employ it successfully.
It the same story with the measles (Rubella), they had been around for centuries, but only the Germans managed to spread the virus around on a big scale, and thus they were named "German measles".

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LOL, perhaps indeed, Komnenos
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we forgot the most 3 important things!

Souvlaki, ouzo and mpouzouki!
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Well, according to the thread's title, I will answer:
I gave to the world:
1) Some good jokes.
2) One painting of a donkey.
3) A mechanism that holds wheelchars in ambulances.
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again... topics like this are just useless. some people claim smth to be theirs then some other come and say no it's ours... I always hated these pointless discussions.
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Posts: 4361 		  Quote Komnenos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Jul-2005 at 13:07
Originally posted by ramin

again... topics like this are just useless. some people claim smth to
be theirs then some other come and say no it's ours... I always hated
these pointless discussions.



Well spoken!
There were moments when I thought, I would put concentration camps, large scale genocide and barbed wire as three things we gave to the world!
But then I thought, better not, somebody comes and claims them for his nation and we would have endless debates on that.

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LOL - sounds like KFC, Komnenos
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