Gantemis
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Gantemis
There is one greek word γκαντέμης (gantemis) that its root is form two English words. It means man with bad luck. Greeks immigrants from USA bring it to Greece. Can you imagine who are these two words?
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I vote for either <gkantémis> or <gandémis>. I'm not sure I would have guessed the meaning, though.I would have written ga(n)demis, then we'd all have known sooner.
The thing I will remember from this thread will probably be argo. The Greek having imported the French word argot for 'slang' suggests that this kind off language evolution is a late phenomenon in Greece.
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