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Old 01-19-2008, 04:16 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Shanazel View Post
And I also read the word "Raqshobic" as raqs phobic. Perhaps it translates better in Greek than it does English.
Haha, I bet it does Shanazel Such problematic compositions of words are created only by people who don't have a particularly deep knowledge of a language. But as I mentioned before, since my fellow country people, the Greeks, are too lazy and too comfortable to check if something is o.k. or not, such things happen often in Greece. I mean she could have asked a native speaker if the term sounds alright in English, couldn't she? There are enough Americans, British, Australians etc. in Greece.
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