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- proper noun A system for
transliterating Greek into theLatin alphabet , either phonetically (for example, transliteratingΝίκη asNiki ) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).
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Examples
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In greece we have what's known as Greeklish but it is more frequently used to describe the different modes of writing greek text using latin characters.
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Incidentally, in researching this post I ran across a Wikipedia article on "Greeklish," the online writing of Greek in Latin characters.
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You know what, I hope someone writes them to "clarify" like Dr. Parastatidis did about their take on Greeklish not to be confused with Gringlish.
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We can't right to our blogs using Greek, we can't search in Greek, we can send business emails only using Greeklish. apple please think different again when composing the next iPod touch / iPhone update.
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According to the study, 77.4 percent of schoolchildren use Greeklish, with numbers rising sharply between junior high and senior high.
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The frequency with which teachers reported finding words written in Greeklish in school essays was as high as 64.3 percent.
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Greeklish, or Grenglish, is the Greek language written with the Latin alphabet.
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