New “hit” by George Babiniotis: How should we say “click away” and the messenger | HELLAS

The former rector of the University of Athens and professor of Linguistics, George Babiniotis, insists on the use of Greek words and terms instead of foreign words. In his new “hit”, he refers to how we should say “click away”.

Starting tomorrow, stores across the country will be able to open with the “click away” system, according to which people will place their order electronically or by phone, and can receive it by appointment.

The former rector of the University of Athens, George Babiniotis, also wanted to refer to this new term, which entered our lives. After “take away”, “lockdown” and “delivery”, now, with a post on Facebook, he explains how we should say in Greek “click away”, “courier” and “courier shipments”. .

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Specifically, he wrote: “In the spirit of speaking Greek to Greeks as much as possible and understanding everything we say, I suggest:

CLICK AWAY εκτός delivery outside / collection outside (store [εννοείται])

MAIL → postman

SHIPPING BY MAIL → postal distributions

Let there be better suggestions. Let me again act as a weak voice of our “linguistic conscience” lest some of the proponents of easy solutions (fatalistic acceptance almost as given foreign words and names) believe that it is not difficult or ridiculous to test the Greek versions. no, not necessarily mine, there may be better ones. (The “lovers of the language plate”, who flock in our country due to the scarce linguistic sensitivity, let them continue with their plate, this also serves to measure the limits of our guilty tolerance).

I will insist on saying this: for small languages ​​(that is, the least spoken) to resist linguistics and not be disturbed, they need great resistance! This also applies to Greek. (Things are different in large countries with more widely spoken languages ​​like French, Italian, Spanish, etc.) ”.