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Postby portokalos » Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:39 am

:)
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Postby Apoclima » Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:50 am

νόστιμος=tasty
νόστιμαλγια=tasty pain
γλυκονοστιμαλγια

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Postby portokalos » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:08 am

:)
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Postby Apoclima » Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:56 pm

Glad you liked it! I looked for the diminutive (little one) of αλγια. But all I could find was the ending "-ion" and I didn't know how to fit it on "algia", would it be algion (αλγιον)?

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Postby portokalos » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:03 am

:)
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Postby Apoclima » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:47 am

All right, then, we'll leave it as is, "gluconostimalgia".

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Re: tasty

Postby M. Henri Day » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:05 pm

The word nostos reminds me the word νόστιμος. ...
Welcome to the Agora, portokalos ! I must confess, even though doing so gives rise to a certain degree of *glukonostimalgia, that the word «*nostos» doesn't remind me of very much at all. Where did you happen upon it ?...

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Postby portokalos » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:03 am

:)
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Postby portokalos » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:14 am

Thanks, I’m happy to be here.
The word is difficult. Full of negative sentiments. Especially to the people who live out of their country. I just with apo wanted to give a more optimistic note to that word. To remain their recollections sweet and the pain to be raised
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Re: tasty

Postby badandy » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:41 pm

the word «*nostos» doesn't remind me of very much at all. Where did you happen upon it ?...
this word is the term for the archetypal hero's 'return quest' as seen in the Odyssey. I had originally wondered about its relation to 'nostalgia' it seems to have spark a 'tasty' discussion
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Postby Apoclima » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:27 pm

Thanks, badandy! (are you bad, andy or ba-dandy?)
So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Odysseus, and he, though he was longing for his return [nostos] to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, ...
from Odyssey

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Postby badandy » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:17 pm

i'm pretty sure it's bad andy, but who can be sure! Actually I was christened badandy after the Domino's Pizza mascot, and I needed an on-air disc jockey name. I'm not really that bad (except at Portuguese), but the name stuck.
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Re: tasty

Postby anders » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:51 pm

I'd like a tranclation better like:a sweet tasty pain.
What Swedes name 'pain Riche' is 'baguettes' to a Frenchman. Not very sweet or even tasty though, but far away from that plastic abomination of a bread imitation that the English dub "Mother's Pride".
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Re: tasty

Postby M. Henri Day » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:50 pm

...

I had originally wondered about its relation to 'nostalgia' it seems to have spark a 'tasty' discussion
That must be why this thread gives the impression of starting rather abruptly ! Is there a page missing, in which the origin of «nostalgia» was discussed ?...

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Postby portokalos » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:42 am

I was opereted with my greek instict and not with the definition of the word
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