Reference to a book by Alexander Schina.

Browing up an old book these days. Its unparalleled title: “For the defense of Greek brainwash / against dark -skinned pseudo -democracy.” His author is our writer and journalist Alexandros Schinas. A series of shows on the language issue broadcast by Deutsche Welle in 1976 and released in Athens in 1977 by Kedros. Schinas considers 19th -century purism and its parallel democracy, primarily the mountaineering psychosis and, secondarily, its later cathedrals, as the two aspects of the same currency, the spiritual underdevelopment. The archangers wanted to clear the language of the democratic elements and the democrats of words, without realizing, lost in their formalism, that both the demo and the words are natural and legal components of the common modern Greek, which of course are not only called to serve them. Charlatans linguists and the children and the victims of the children at school who had to learn what is allowed to say and what is not.

He writes at one point: “What was presented as a contradiction between the cleaner and the elementary was nothing more than a formal shadowing between homosexuals in the same external space, a coaching fans between allies to find the most appropriate means of dealing with their large audiences. Schinas Xifouli is warmly in favor of a multilevel Modern Greek that will not be spiral with its own historical layouts and in favor of a descriptive rather than regulatory grammar, from which “the student of all ages would be informed and felt that he was born in a country and Greece. Amputation of this very important identity is a national self -denial. “

The reason for those broadcasts of Schina was the revised Grammar Triantafyllidis, which had been introduced for school use, a revision of the original Triantafyllidis grammar that had been drafted and printed under the auspices of the Metaxas dictatorship. One of the most characteristic symbols of the psyche was the struggle against the old thirds that had survived but had to be saved, so that doctrine taught that the plural should not say “thoughts” but “thought” in the first. But because this check did not prosper, later populism insisted at least the spelling of the singular, “thought” with it. Schinas highlighted in his own contradiction the writing of the old thirds with Yota, nail to the eyes of the new regulators, so “think” with Iota. And he remained loyal to his symbol to the end.