Reverend Dorotheus II:"They gave me Greek as the language, the poor house..." (Elytis)

And they are not wrong, and the language, as a supreme cultural product, it indicates and expresses the psyche and dynamics of a people, is a field, in which the characteristics of its bearer people are depicted.

Why, language is an element of unity and distinction of a people; the existence of a people is certified by its particular linguistic idiom; the extinction of a people is achieved by the alteration of its linguistic sensibility and its gradual linguistic alienation….

For us Greeks, the above points are of particular importance, if we think that the Greek language, with its three-thousand-year past, formed the basis of Latin, and consequently of the newer European languages, lent words to the terminology of most sciences, expressed and created with its materials top creations of world culture and became a bearer of the saving message of Christ.

Despite all that, Nevertheless, they seem tragically relevant, and today, the apt remarks of another of our Nobel-winning poets, by Giorgos Seferis: "God has given us a living language, healthy, stubborn and cute, which still endures, although we have unleashed all the summers to eat her!».

Why, he is no longer the barbarian, non-religious and non-linguistic conqueror, or the civilized colonialist, which threatens our language with extinction!

We are the Greeks, what with xenomania, the mimicry and complexes of our ragiadism, we are led to a new conquest, cultural this time - and therefore much more dangerous!

"... Learn the Greek language well. Spend many hours, to learn it well. Because it is a very good language. All foreign languages ​​have borrowed many words from Greek. Philosophers and writers and historians also spoke with this language, not only in antiquity and in Byzantium, but if you consider that a small country has received two Nobel Prizes for Literature, goes to say that this language is very strong. Seferis, the Elytis, our Nobel laureates, Cavafy, Ritsos, Kazantzakis are some of the names, which the international community respects and reads them. And I want you to read these great poets in the original, and not in the translation... And I want you to sing 'Christ is Risen' in Greek!»

In these 124 direct words addressed by the President of the Republic Mr. Karolos Papoulias to 150 young people of the Greek Diaspora, who were hosted in Greece on 2010, all the greatness is condensed, the wealth, the offer and the uniqueness of the Greek language and the overwhelming national necessity of its correct and complete learning, in the various stages of its centuries-old evolution, without outside interventions and interventions...

Why, unfortunately, we do not allow physics in our language, effortless and smooth progression, we do not let it follow the normal change of social conditions. We have confused language with politics, we rebranded politicians into linguists and we regulate the language with laws, as if they ever needed the Greek language to evolve and flourish…

And while the consequences of the "surgery" are now clearly visible, which abolished tonal marks and spirits, late, but methodically, imposed by invisible "experts" the gradual "simplification" of spelling, the abolition of double consonants, of the various – i -, or the replacement of eu and au with ef/ev and af/ab, we abuse the spelling and aesthetics of the foreign words introduced into the Greek language, returning to primitive sound writing, in name, everything, of modernization and development…

Such efforts and opinions, Nevertheless, they are not so original and modern, as they appear.. Something similar was attempted and promoted in the 19th century by Psycharis, to accept the justified lewdness of G. Surῆ:
"and if instead of him, you write the beta,
you don't want to appear innovative for this.
Everyone makes these jokes freely,
and in the city of the wise and in every other place"!
† Dorotheos II of Syros and Mykonos