This forum tolerates double-and-triple posting.It just would be nice if you want to say something more, you edit your post.
I just don't want ya to be banned or anything.
This forum tolerates double-and-triple posting.It just would be nice if you want to say something more, you edit your post.
I just don't want ya to be banned or anything.
Where is the rule thread?
You realy dont need a rule thread there very simple.
Dont post nude pics.
Dont make content free threads constantly like spaming.
Try not to post content free comments/posts on others threads like spamming.
Dont insult people.
Try not to post things you cant back up.
Dont resurect very old dead threads.
Dont post completly insane mad stuff like "the americans didnt drop an atom bomb on japan it was just realy realy big fire bomb".
Dont put flamebites.
Dont participate in flamewars.
Dont be racists.
And most importantly dont troll.
This is all you need to know realy.
Wait I am new on the computer and everything how do you spam and what is a troll?
Lets just say spamming is filling up the screen with threads that have no content and posts that have no content. Kinda like those annoying pop up commercials that dont leave you alone when your on the internet.
For the definition of troll i gave you a link with a couple of definitions. Is from the urban dictionary. Kepp reading the diffrent definitions till you understand what a troll is.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Internet%20troll
How old are you by the way? And do you live in russia?
Although they were ambitious, the Greeks post-1824 were never a numerous people, and their reach usually exceeded their grasp.
The Greek language, for one thing, historically had been slow to spread beyond ethnic Greeks themselves outside of Anatolia, and in Anatolia itself Turkish immigrants to Anatolia kept their own language and eventually largely displaced Greek-speakers. The Byzantine empire failed to leave multiple sucessor states speaking Greek derivations the way the older Latin Roman empire did in Spain, France, Italy, etc.
Part of the problem is perhaps that a sense of the importance of being "Greek" as an ethnos was to some extent lost during the Byzantine period: the subjects of the Emperor in Constantinople thought of themselves as Romans and Orthodox Christians who simply happened to speak Greek: "Hellenes" were ancient pagans. Modern Greek nationalism with its identification with the Glory That Was is largely a 19th century creation. Why bother to "Grecify" subject peoples, as long as they obeyed the Emperor and followed the correct form of Christianity?
(I may be speaking out of my sphincter here: any Byzantine experts please correct me if I err)
So how do we increase the numbers of Greeks? We can of course do a lot if we have PODs going back to Justinian's time, but lets make this harder - let's try with PODs after the Ottoman conquest. How do we get a larger number of self-identified Greeks today in 2010, with post-1453 PODs?
Bruce
Just have the greeks a stronger identity..