Anybody here speak fluent Greek?

[NickM]

Gang,

I have a question about a Greek word, that my mom can no longer answer due to her dementia. I keep hearing it on some shows I watch with my Mom from Greece: the word is "Lahtarizis", at least that's how it sounds...maybe it's "Lachtarizis" but it's used like "Lachtaris", "Lachtarizo". I mean, it sounds like 'desire', obsession, fixation, lust after but it's not quite those words. Thank you ahead of time.

[DKTanker]

It's all Greek to me but Google translate says "You crave" or "I crave".

[NickM]

14 hours ago, DKTanker said:

It's all Greek to me but Google translate says "You crave" or "I crave".

Hah I didn't realize a person could simply enter the word using the Latin Alphabet and the translator would make it work

[rohala]

On 2/13/2025 at 4:54 AM, DKTanker said:

It's all Greek to me but Google translate says "You crave" or "I crave".

that's pretty spot-on

[Stargrunt6]

This legit trips me out. 

 

 

[NickM]

8 hours ago, rohala said:

that's pretty spot-on

 

Yeah, now that I know Google is more 'flexible' than I expected, I'm quite pleased.

[sunday]

12 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

This legit trips me out. 

 

 

Did not know that. Quite interesting.

There are some phonetic similarities between Spanish and Japanese, like the hard "j".

[NickM]

1 hour ago, sunday said:

Did not know that. Quite interesting.

There are some phonetic similarities between Spanish and Japanese, like the hard "j".

Greek doesn't have a "J"/"G", we have to go to "Tz", so not John or George but "Tzon" or "Tzeorge".  No "Sh" or "Ch" either.