The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

St. Paul said, "The effeminate will not enter into the kingdom of heaven". I look around in the pews of the Orthodox church I attend. All the boys exhibit a cowed look. They're effeminate. Plain and simple. To obey takes a hardness. An effeminate can not obey. It's tooooo hard. When boys ...

Greek is a highly technical language much like German. English being a terrible language to connote philosophical meaning is widely held. I don't have to apologize. It is the truth. I know it's widely held to be the truth; that doesn't make it the truth. And I repeat, if English is inadequate to th...

ORPRcamper wrote:

I don't know about english being a terrible language, but it is very complicated and ugly.[/i]

Certainly our spelling is complicated. Ugly is in the ear of the listener.

Patrick

This is one of my arguments. English is a terrible language. It is not comparable to Greek. Greek is a very scientific language. It has deeper varied meanings to their words. English is a late language and not a pure one. May I suggest that these comments on the English language are out of order? &...

Joe, there is no way that you could have visited NC anytime in the past 10 years....a "few" yankees down here...hahah... in a lot of the cities here it is almost impossible to find a native...just as an example, my next door neighbors are from Boston and Detroit! But it's not all bad. We ...

Patrick: I do apologize for casting too many aspersions upon the birthplace of that most delectable of dishes-BBQ. It has been my experience however that what few yankees do live in the Holy Land (North and South Carolina), reside in Charleston. I could provide some names for the tarring and feathe...

What I realized later on, is that I had reversed the Grand Duchess' name, unintentionally! Since Louis, her father's name, has no equivalent in Russian, both the Grand Duchess and her sister the Tsarina, were given "Feodorovna" (Russian version of Theodora) as their patronymic. I would lo...