elliest_5 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 11:27 PM)

So there is this video from the series that is very popular among Greeks (and the source of ample laughter):
The reason is that, what is supposed to be a "Dorian chant" (mistakenly read in "Ionian rhythm", according to Gabrielle, despite the fact that "Dorian/Ionian rhythm" are architectural terms, mainly referring to pillar styles rather than the actual ancient Dorian and Ionian dialects) is actually in Modern Greek instead of Ancient Greek, and it goes like this (generally pronounced wrong):
Thank you very much
So and so
Hi good morning
Hi good night
Hi good "noches" [as in: the Spanish word for night]
and then, to send the giants/old gods back to sleep, it goes like:
Greetings greetings greetings
Hi greet
Good greet
Mupolita mupolita [gibberish]
Hania! [a town in Crete] Iraklion! [another town in Crete]
I doubt that the translation transmits how ridiculous this sounds to a Greek speaker, but yeh, it's hilarious.
So has anyone ever commented on this, say in a convention? I would love to find out the story behind this chant disaster (e.g. they only realised they forgot to research & write the chant while filming that scene, so they sent someone to the nearest bookstore to get a Greek phrasebook for tourists? some Greek guy in the production team decided to troll everyone?).
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