But really, please check out all the great work linguists do here for Cypriot Greek an in general. 
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It ties back into Lockhart's Lament, one of my favourite pieces of text on pedagogy... sadly many people want questions like "how do I solve this maths problem?" or "how do I say/write this in English/Greek?" to have simple answers. https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf …
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But they just don't and teaching things that rigidly is damaging — some simplification at young ages is extremely important of course, but so is critical thinking and how to find signal in noise, etc. This very rigid thinking was esp. popular when I was at school in Cyprus.
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Many Cypriots, through no fault of their own, have not had the chance to escape this way of thinking and I believe it can bring about real damage to, in this case, Cypriot Greek.
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I understand that non-linguists can be frustrating to academics. But be mindful that when we try to understand we often tend to be biased towards the practical answers because we want to use the language to communicate.
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To be clear, I might be in a division called Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL, but I am certainly not a linguist.
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I doff my hat to linguists doing this kind of work like Petros though. Both my mum and aunt did their masters theses on Cypriot Greek too.
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