No, we're talking about the same thing. Katharevousa VS Demotic created Koine (aka Modern Greek). I wasn't speaking about Cyp.
is this because you didn't go to school in Greece? Did you grow up in Oz?
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I think pretty much every person raised in Greece and (Greek-speaking) Cyprus knows this as it's drilled into them.
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I left Oz when I was 2.5. I am Greek, and Greek is my native lang. It is just that I am not good at it after not practicing it.
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ahhh I might be talking shit and it's me that knows this stuff from reading obsessively
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I think most Greeks below 35-40 now like the general story -- unless they studied language. But this is what I feel, not any data:)
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I'm below below 35

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but yeah I don't know that much just have interest
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That is always the best motivator for learning anything (imo). Maybe I should have done my homework when I was still young :)
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I think I knew a lot of history we were taught at school was wrong esp about cyprob so I just read as much as poss
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I wish was more into history reading than (science) fiction back then...
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