'“You sound like my yiayia,” they all say.
You sound like my grandmother.'
This is great from @sarahmanavis on dialect, immigration, and how she learnt to speak Greek like an old womanhttps://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/learning-greek-in-ohio-the-curious-story-of-how-immigration-keeps-old-dialects-alive …
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I'm curious to know where her grandmother was from though - I'm guessing a Pontic Greek community or similar?
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Corinthos, Velo-Voha specifically
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