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This article should be renamed "Demotic Greek", per W:Use English. FilipeS ( talk) 17:17, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
When does this language exist? Is it ancient? Is it modern? Is it in between? Does it have a time range when it is applicable? Did someone forget something? Stevenmitchell ( talk) 15:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
The goal of this article should be to explain to an unversed reader (such as me) exactly what Demotic Greek is, and perhaps how it relates historically to other forms of Greek. Unfortunately, only the first paragraph is reliably informative. The rest of the article - a list of forms in Modern Greek that did NOT come from Demotic, and an uncited, suspiciously partisan-sounding biography - appears to be written by someone with the agenda of delegitimizing the reforms that led to the adoption of Demotic as the national language. I have applied NPOV and Weasel tags in the hope that someone more informed than I will come along to help fix this article. Angio ( talk) 04:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved per discussion. GTBacchus( talk) 00:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Dimotiki →
Demotic Greek — Per
WP:EN.
Angio (
talk) 06:25, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
The differences between Demotic and Standard Modern Greek belong to the latter. This is about the development of a standard language from a vernacular. Andreas (T) 16:03, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The anonymous editor also confused Demotic Greek with Demotic (Egyptian), which was indeed written from right to left. Andreas (T) 21:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
The first sentence of this section says "Demotic Greek differs from varieties of Ancient Greek and learned forms inherited from the same in several important ways." Is this correct, since learned forms are usually by definition not inherited (orally transmitted through usage in the population) but intentional loan words taken from texts of more ancient forms of the language, such as for prestige reasons and so on? Word dewd544 ( talk) 15:57, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
The word "inherited" was, I think, meant to specify that the learned forms in question were derived from Ancient Greek. This is an unnecessary detail, as there are no learned forms derived from other languages ;-). I removed the offending word.
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Black Walnut
talk 22:34, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
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This article should be renamed "Demotic Greek", per W:Use English. FilipeS ( talk) 17:17, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
When does this language exist? Is it ancient? Is it modern? Is it in between? Does it have a time range when it is applicable? Did someone forget something? Stevenmitchell ( talk) 15:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
The goal of this article should be to explain to an unversed reader (such as me) exactly what Demotic Greek is, and perhaps how it relates historically to other forms of Greek. Unfortunately, only the first paragraph is reliably informative. The rest of the article - a list of forms in Modern Greek that did NOT come from Demotic, and an uncited, suspiciously partisan-sounding biography - appears to be written by someone with the agenda of delegitimizing the reforms that led to the adoption of Demotic as the national language. I have applied NPOV and Weasel tags in the hope that someone more informed than I will come along to help fix this article. Angio ( talk) 04:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved per discussion. GTBacchus( talk) 00:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Dimotiki →
Demotic Greek — Per
WP:EN.
Angio (
talk) 06:25, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
The differences between Demotic and Standard Modern Greek belong to the latter. This is about the development of a standard language from a vernacular. Andreas (T) 16:03, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The anonymous editor also confused Demotic Greek with Demotic (Egyptian), which was indeed written from right to left. Andreas (T) 21:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
The first sentence of this section says "Demotic Greek differs from varieties of Ancient Greek and learned forms inherited from the same in several important ways." Is this correct, since learned forms are usually by definition not inherited (orally transmitted through usage in the population) but intentional loan words taken from texts of more ancient forms of the language, such as for prestige reasons and so on? Word dewd544 ( talk) 15:57, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
The word "inherited" was, I think, meant to specify that the learned forms in question were derived from Ancient Greek. This is an unnecessary detail, as there are no learned forms derived from other languages ;-). I removed the offending word.
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Black Walnut
talk 22:34, 29 December 2021 (UTC)