Did you know that we all speak Greek?

That’s true, whether we know it or not.  Xenophon Zolotas, director of the Bank of Greece, supported that the Greek language greatly contributed to the English language particularly in the domains of theology, philosophy, medicine, and science.

He proved this by way of  two speeches in English, using only Greek words (with the exception of articles and prepositions).

After reading the following texts which were presented to the International Monetary Fund you will agree that we all speak and understand a little bit if Greek!

First speech in 1957

“ I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed “Greek” to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, l shall do it now, using, with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.” 

Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.

With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe.

In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.

And another speech in 1959

Kyrie, it is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices.

Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic.

In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological.

But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didymus organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies.

The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.

I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.

A bit of background:

Xenophon Zolotas (Ξενοφών Ζολώτας, 1904 –2004) was a Greek economist, director of the Bank of Greece and served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.

Born in Athens on April 26, 1904, Zolotas came from a wealthy family of Russian goldsmiths.

In 1968 he became Professor of Economics at Athens University and at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until his resignation in protest to the military Junta which came to power in 1967.

He held senior posts in the International Monetary Fund and other international organizations in 1946 and 1981.

He was a Keynesian who published many works on Greek and international economic topics including “Economic Growth and Declining Social Welfare”.

He supported that the Greek language greatly contributed to the English language by making English speeches, using only Greek words with the exception of articles and prepositions.

Zolotas lived to be 100 years old and died on 10 June 2004.

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