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2009/11/9 Claude Almansi <[log in to unmask]> > Mmm - grammatically correct, yet nowadays - and since the beginning of > the 20th c, roughly, I believe - saying Ευχαριστώ, Φίλιππε would > sound as stilted or ironic as addressing a mortal with "thou" in > English. > > Sorry, but I have to disagree. I have regular contacts with L1 Greek speakers, and I know for a fact that they use the vocative Φίλιππε (as it happens, one of them is called Φίλιππος). And they aren't literally minded nor conservative people, but just a bunch of twenty-to-thirty-something inhabitants of Lesbos (who regularly go to Athens). -- Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets. http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/ http://www.christophoronomicon.nl/