There are only about 1 million people "like me" ethnically in the whole world.
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Replying to @o_guest
wonder which is more mutually intelligible with it's counterpart. Cypriot Turkish/Turkish or Cypriot Greek/ Greek?
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Replying to @Tres_Manxes
I don't speak 2/4 of those, but I have a feeling CypGreek as more of us to sustain a diff w/out dropping to basilect for vocab.
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Replying to @o_guest
from looking at the history...just curious. Who generally speaks faster, Cypriots or Greeks?
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Replying to @o_guest
Idk It's just that I'm making this vague assumption that Islanders speak faster for some reason. Like Mallorcans and Dominicans
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Replying to @Tres_Manxes
we are assumed to be stupid and slow by Greeks to be honest
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Replying to @o_guest
so I'd guess Greeks would be assumed to be pretentious snobs??
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yes, we call them kalamarades which is insulting but calling them elite, derived from the calamari ink a scholar uses to write.
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