Greek characters

The other way around: it's about time Greeks would get over being conquered by the Roman Empire and adopt the Latin alphabet altogether, not only in touristic places.

[nq:1]Not Nick & Stavros. I'm wondering why OED uses the Greek alphabet to show Greek words for etymological purposes. Back ... are agreed standards for transliteration of Greek letters, so is it time for Greek to be made plain to us?[/nq]
I have to agree. I get very mixed up with all the 'e' sounds.
Rob Bannister

[nq:1]The other way around: it's about time Greeks would get over beingconquered by the Roman Empire and adopt the Latin alphabet altogether, not only intouristic places.[/nq]
Yeah, and the Serbs too, and the Russians, and, why, those shifty Arabs. If they'd write in Latin characters it'd be a lot easier for us to understand 'em. I'll send an email to Rummy right away.
Maybe if we could ge

[nq:1]The other way around: it's about time Greeks would get over being conquered by the Roman Empire and adopt the Latin alphabet altogether, not only in touristic places.[/nq]
Speaking of Greeks, SNL did an "interview" with a member of the Greek Olympic Committee. When discussing the progress of the facilities there, he said that the Greeks were considering adding a new event to the Olympics

I spent the New Year vacation in Greece. At that time, only eight months before the Olympics, I couldn't believe Athina would be ready for the events. But the locals were optimistic and they were right.

[nq:1]The other way around: it's about time Greeks would get over being conquered by the Roman Empire and adopt the Latin alphabet altogether, not only in touristic places.[/nq]
Culturally, the Greeks conquered the Roman Empire. All those classical guys, like Julius Caesar, had to learn it, starting of course with that alphabet.
By a well known tale even his centurions
understood at le

If a certain stereotype of "education" doesn't include Greek any more, although for a couple of centuries it did, why should "education" now include etymology, of all recherché technical things, when that was never at any point a subject every gentleman was supposed to waste his youth on?

The work mentioned was never intended for "the educated reader," it was intended for pedants. Now tha

[nq:2]Not Nick & Stavros. I'm wondering why OED uses the ... it time for Greek to be made plain to us?[/nq]
[nq:1]I have to agree. I get very mixed up with all the 'e' sounds.[/nq]
I think it would be asking for problems, really. In an authoritative text like OED it's essential to have a stable system of representation agreed by scholars worldwide ; and since both English and Greek pronunc

[nq:2]I have to agree. I get very mixed up with all the 'e' sounds.[/nq]
[nq:1]I think it would be asking for problems, really. In an authoritative text like OED it's essential to have a ... think any method of transliteration could be relied on to reflect the original for a long enough period of time.[/nq]
So why not use both?

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]Yeah, and the Serbs too, and the Russians, and, why, those shifty Arabs. If they'd write in Latin characters it'd be a lot easier for us to understand 'em. I'll send an email to Rummy right away.[/nq]
That idea maynot be quite as silly as you seem to suggest. Ataturk, Father of the Turks, gave the Turkish nation something like 90 days to convert from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet for