What does Genesis 1:1-3 sound like in your language?

Here we go:

(The Vocaroos have expired, so use the YouTube instead):

Klingon. The online version I found was grotesquely ungrammatical; I did my own on the spot:

Vocaroo | Voice message

taghDI’, chal yav je chenmoH joH’a’.
’ej SubHa’taH buy’Ha’taH je yav. DIS ghorDaq HurghtaH ’ej bIQ’a’ DungDaq puvtaH joH’a’ qa’.
’ej jatlh joH’a’: wovwI’, chen! ‘ej chen wovwI’.

Esperanto: Vocaroo | Voice message

Koine Greek, Attic pronunciation: Vocaroo | Voice message

Koine Greek, Modern pronunciation: Vocaroo | Voice message

Modern Greek: Vocaroo | Voice message

English: Vocaroo | Voice message


Steven de Guzman is now extorting out of me recordings in languages I don’t actually speak well (or at all). Not my fault, Karol Emil Thornton-Remiszewski. So.

Tok Pisin (Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin STAT 1): Vocaroo | Voice message

German: Vocaroo | Voice message

Spanish: Vocaroo | Voice message

French: Vocaroo | Voice message

Italian: Vocaroo | Voice message

Latin: Vocaroo | Voice message

In what situations would you use an article in English where you wouldn’t in Modern Greek? And vice-versa?

Rather than make up an answer, I googled and am posting from the first blog I found:

Πότε δεν χρησιμοποιούμε το οριστικό άρθρο the

  • Proper names in Modern Greek always take a definite article. It’s quite rare in English: rivers, families, plural countries.
  • Nouns with generic reference take a definite article in Modern Greek and not in English: Gentlemen prefer blondes in Greek is Οι άντρες προτιμούν τις ξανθιές.

As for the indefinite article, it’s mandatory in English where it applies; it’s often optional in Greek. So I saw a car = είδα (ένα) αυτοκίνητο.

How is your accent in Greek? Could you record the passage in comments to let us hear how you sound in Greek?

OP here. 2nd-generation Greek living in Australia, which has made my dentals alveolars. I believe my Greek accent to have been influenced by my Cypriot father, rather than my Cretan mother.

Vocaroo | Voice message

UPDATE: Vocaroo | Voice message

Does Quora ever revoke user bans?

One: Steven de Guzman. Banned over his activity in Spam detectives and restored, twice, no explanation given.

Two, Richard White. “Overturned” in four hours. Nick Nicholas’ answer to Why was Richard White banned from Quora? Again, no explanation given.

What there is on Quora about account banning seems to reflect the Elder Days, when there was community involvement in moderation. It is hard to believe, given the slew of bans in mid-2016, that the same level of deliberation and warnings that Konstantinos Konstantinides’ answer recalls is happening now.

EDIT: Whatever the frequency of ban reversals was before, they’re not uncommon nowadays: see Necrologue.

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