Comments on: 12 Greek Words You Should Know

By: Oz Verbivore

Oz Verbivore — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:58:05 +0000

re: Phobia

“Many people wrongly think that a phobia is a fear. In reality it is more than that. Phobia is an irrational and exaggerated fear of something.”

Pardon me, but fear is an instinctive reaction (and an emotion), so it cannot, logically, be rational.

Therefore I regard the term “irrational fear” as tautological.

By: Mitsos

Mitsos — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:54:33 +0000

You forgot some words:
You should know
“Ai Gamisou”
“Malaka”
Nuff said

By: Dennis Hodgson

Dennis Hodgson — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:32:21 +0000

You could, perhaps should, have included the following: chaos, criterion, hubris, hyperbole, mentor, stigma.

By: Damian K

Damian K — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:44:42 +0000

I’m Greek and this is all very true…

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:57:30 +0000

Yeah, fancy English-men permeate any discussion of the English language! I hate it when DOGMATIC francophiles try to tell me that “ahh saw eem pissing bai de weendow” (as spoken in Allo Allo) isn’t proper French, too How dare they!