Tea Cup Cafe part Thirteen or XIII

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

I learned a little modern Greek, back in the day when I was living in Seattle and had my Greek boyfriend for like 3 years... I love the language. I had previously taught myself a little ancient Greek, you know, copying the letters and learning how to pronounce them from pronunciation guides, learning root words, stuff like that. So, Persian is like Greek, with the Rrrr thing? Very cool. There's an art to correctly pronouncing Greek. It has its own thing going, not weird and phlegmy like Hebrew or Arabic, not jauntily lyrical like Italian, not frankly Latinesque like Spanish and French, not dangerously and smokily guttural like Russian and Romanian...

Hey, now, watch what you say about Russian!

Ciao for now, Entmoot. Man, the Teacup sure has changed so much over the last six months. Radically, completely changed. Ah, well. I'll always emember the golden, lovely, rambunctious and sweet old Teacup days; remember Leroy? Dragazzo and Obnavat? The Skybar? The gardens and the swimming pool, and the artwork everywhere? People ate real food, and drank real drinks, none of this endless cheap doughnuts and stale coffee and whatnot. We had it hooked up! Man, it used to be the bomb...

I know exactly what you mean...it used to be so cool...and now, it's really degenerated...