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One of the most common fillers in U.K. English. As SBE said in my last query, using the filler correctly in its original sense (see below) :-'First, I have to say that I do not understand meaning 3 at all and I don't understand the example either.' It used to be 'I must say' but that sounds now...

Thanks for all the comments & translations that colleagues have made. I didn't understand what Jim said, quoting Harry Klynn's famous monologue, δηλ. Άπαξ και έριξε φινάλε να πούμε το έργο, πρέπει να την σακουλευτείς που την πάει ο μάγκας τη δουλειά. Ούτω πως και αι ταινίαι τέχνης...I need a...

Thanks to all! '(You) know what I mean' must be one of the commonest UK fillers apart from the now ever-present 'I have to say'. I'll submit that query tomorrow. I'm fighting my third serious chest infection this year. Old age doesn't come on it's own....

In my entry '(you) know what I mean', daeman gave me as one of his many alternatives τη σακουλεύτικες. While checking it in slang.gr, I came across these three meanings:- 1. σακουλεύομαι Την κοπανάω, την κάνω, παίρνω τον πούλο, κόβω λάσπη (ως αποτέλεσμα του άλλου ορισμού). [Εναλλακτικά: (παίρνω)...

This is one of the emptiest of all fillers but gives the speaker time to organise his or her thoughts. It is virtually meaningless. I am sure there is a similar Greek equivalent. The Urban Dictionary is scathing about those who use it:- ''Phrase used by the inarticulate and dimwitted as a comma...

For some reason or other, my original answer seems to have been expunged. I said I am grateful for the plethora of alternatives and the wealth of examples colleagues have given me and, more important, for the register of each expression. This is very difficult for a beginner to grasp.:)

:)Thanks to all of you for this plethora of suggestions! The trouble is for a learner to know the linguistic register of a particular word or phrase. All the information here has been invaluable & the sentences given are very instructive.:)

A filler used for making your criticism of someone or something seem less strong. --I have never liked their music, although, to be fair, millions of people disagree with me. But more often the phrase is used with no meaning at all, like 'I have to say'--my particular bête noire.... As the...

Your definition, m_a_a, is certainly one of the possible uses of this expression. I should have given example sentences. Thanks again.

Thanks both. It means, m_a_a, 'there really is no benefit in reliving past experiences over and over again.':)

What is the best & most natural way of saying this in spoken, colloquial Greek? It is a very common statement in U.K. English.:D

Thanks, 'Man, as ever. The Routledge Modern Greek Reader is the very book that I'm trying to work through!

Thanks all. The difference between the aorist & the past continuous hadn't escaped my notice. Does anyone know this Cypriot(?) folktale?

Thanks as ever, 'Man.

From a Cypriot fable. Does πήγαινε here mean 'the owl would go & take the bread to her child in school'? It seems an odd way of saying it. The order of events is the wrong way round. Is there some idiom here I am unaware of?:confused: Or does it mean 'the owl got bread & would take it to her...

This definition might be helpful:- Αυτό που έχω ακούσει μόνο είναι η έκφραση 'έπαθα μπορνιόκο' που έχει την έννοια του 'μου ήρθε εγκεφαλικό΄. Δεν ξέρω όμως την προέλευση της λέξης ή αν μιλάμε για το ίδιο πράγμα.

In the new textbook I am embarking on now, after the passage in Greek there are a set of questions in Greek. One of them asks for the opposite of γλυκόλογα. The only one I can think of is προσβολές. Can colleagues think of better alternatives?:)

Thanks, 'Man. That's all I can say! What a song.....

Here is my attempt at a translation--a tribute to, Δαεμαηδόνι, our Cretan nightingale, who ever so briefly sung of his πάθη...... ´The sun sleeps in the mountains & the partridge in the rocks And for me my flower sleeps on white pillows; In the midst I put the eagle; on the edge the...

Thanks, SBE & Daeman. I don't understand many of the words of the mantinades from Μα δες εδώ δε χαίρομαι, καλή καρδιά δεν κάνω μούδε κι απ' τ' αχειλάκι μου μιαν εμιλιά δε βγάνω onwards. I need to know the line numbers, if some mantinades come from Erotokritos: the dialect is puzzling as is the...