Re: 3 fragen zur sprache

> >PS Ich persoenlich finde Katharevousa sehr
> schoen, aber das sollte man in GR besser nicht
> laut sagen - eben wegen der positisch/sozialen
> bedeutung und der Strassenschlachten und der
> Toten...
>
> Das ist einfach übertrieben, schön find
> ich es auch und viele andere und man kann es
> sagen. :-)

Ich weiss ja nicht, wie lange Du schon in Griechenland lebst und in welcher sozialen Umgebung. Wenn nicht, google doch einfach mal :-)

Ich habe auf Anhieb haufenweise solcher Zusammenfassungen gefuinden:

"Another political issue in 19th century Greece was uniquely Greek: the language question. The Greek people spoke a simple form of Greek called (The modern Greek vernacular) Demotic. Many of the educated elite saw this as a peasant dialect and were determined to restore the glories of (The Greek language prior to the Roman Empire) Ancient Greek. Government documents and newspapers were published in (Click link for more info and facts about Katharevousa) Katharevousa (purified) Greek, a form which few ordinary Greeks could read. Liberals favoured recognising Demotic as the national language, but conservatives, the University and the Orthodox Church resisted all such efforts. When the (The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other Epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible) New Testament was translated into Demotic in 1901, there were riots in Athens and the government fell. The Liberals promoted Demotic and the Conservatives promoted Katharevousa. This issue plagued Greek politics until the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s."

Der Sprachen-Streit hat sogar zum Sturz einer Regierung gefuehrt...Uebertreibung?

Gruss, Carmen

PS Dieses Zitat war von hier entnommen: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_modern_greece.htm, aber wie gesagt, es gibt haufenweise anderer Quellen, die genau das belegen, was Dir jeder Mensch in GR auch erzaehlen wird.