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Among other things, Neikos has very kindly sent me this song in Cretan dialect partly for me to try my translation skills but I'm struggling in many places. The translation below is what I have made of it: Χαϊνηδες-Ο Θάνατος του παλικαριού...

An extremely helpful answer, thank you, SBE! Thanks too for the fascinating information in the second and third paragraphs. Now that you have identified the song for me, I have found several versions with extra verses. One has the petticoats red and sky blue. Can I ask you the meaning of this...

Φταίω εγώ. Ξέρεις τις λέξεις του τραγουδιού; :)

Can anyone identify the words to this lovely song, which is sung in this χορόσταση:- I've tried hard to find them but have had to admit defeat!

Whoops! It's obvious that I don't do well with humour!! No emoticons this time...

Thanks, Neikos. Why is it blatantly Nazi? Have I missed something?

I agree about the black coffee. 'Racist' is a label thrown around indiscriminately about any use of the word 'black'. 'A jungle drum moment' I have heard used in Australian soaps fairly recently for this change when friendship changes to love. It is quite an evocative phrase for the heightened...

Apparently a phrase from this song by Emiliana Torrini:- It refers to a moment between two friends when the friendship takes on a different dimension and something more than friendship is born. Is there a matching Greek phrase?:) BTW, the reference to a jungle drum can be taken as racist by...

Thanks, Palαύρα. I got the relevant bit anyway!

It think τυχαίο δεν νομίζω was Nickel. :)

Thanks, SBE, & the second bit? Τη κείο δεν νομίζω? :) I am trying to understand bits of Greek today which I can't here properly. Like the beginning of the Pentozali in the video clip [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZMrFWnMes] at 27 seconds where Antonis Martsakis is supposed to say according...

In this video clip, Dr Gareth Owens utters two bits of Greek which the audience The find amusing. I can't understand them:- One sounds like από πάιεμ & the other like τη κείο δεν νομίζω. The audience seems to find them funny! Can a colleague throw light on them & what is the full...

Thanks as ever, SBE, for the time & effort taken on my behalf in what must seem to you to be a trivial thread.:) The comments about 'dyslexia' were very helpful. It is a sad truth about education that even now here in the U.K. 'special needs' can be a subject for mockery with those who should...

Thanks for sorting out the confusion, 'Man.i had never heard of a greeter before; perhaps I would know them as doormen. So the comparison with RC cardinals is slang.gr clever-clever stuff. I should have heeded Palαύρα's warning about slang.gr's in-group style of writing.:(

Thanks, both. I still don't understand the dyslexia connection with cardinals & the meaning of the phrase τυχόν απομάκρυνση του επιδρά καταλυτικά επάνω του.

From slang.gr, sense 1. I don't understand one or two words or paragraphs, which I have marked in bold. The general sense is that the word means a wannabe stud. 1. καληνυχτάκιας Γλοιώδης τύπος που ανοίγει / κλείνει πόρτα - κορδόνι - τζαμαρία και χαιρετάει κόσμο σε κλαμπ / εστιατόρια /...

Thanks, Altan. Is the second meaning from a separate Arabic root?

Thanks, SBE. Yes, that's just what happens in a barn dance, which is generally unrehearsed.

Thanks, SBE, for this extra information. I wonder whether in the Ancient Greek choral odes whether such cries were uttered by the leader of the chorus--the χορηγός (later called the κορυφαῖος). It is highly probable. You have given me a real insight into how the chorus performed in ancient times.

Thanks, SBE. Sorry about the belated reply. :):)