"μία δάδα"
Translation:A torch
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My study of Romance languages is not helpful... I would have guessed "my dad". :-(
I'm trying to figure out if they mean a fire torch or the British use of torch which is a flashlight in America.
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A Greek friend of mine laughed at me when I used δάδα as "electrical torch", which is φακός! Who needs the word "fire-torch", "flambeau"?
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Google Translate's rendering of the Greek Wiktionary entry is "piece of wood on the edge of which they put fire and kept it to illuminate the night."
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Why would they include a word like a torch on such an early stage??
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Because they're not teaching vocabulary here -- they're teaching us how to read the alphabet. "dada" is pretty simple as reading goes. :)
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True, but are there no other simply read words that are at least slightly practical?
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If this is the term employed for the torch used by runners to carry the Olympic flame, it would be an iconic Hellenic cultural reference.
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Its because Americans can see μαμά is mom/mama, but Dad (μπαμπάς) is not δαδα. What is it? Well now we know it's torch. At least thats how my brain works.
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There are several ways to type diacritics. One, is to install the appropriate language package that comes with the system you are using (Windows, IOS, Android, etc) and then switch between the various language systems/keyboards as needed. Another, much easier is to use a browser/application that provides multiple languages support; for example, in Google Chrome, you could use Google Translate application which will provide a 'soft' keyboard for the language selected! This is by far the easiest as it should work on any system (Windows, Apple, Android) as long as you have Google Translate access in your browser... NOTE: I use Chrome which comes with Google Translate... HTH, Daniel.
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Ubuntu comes with Greek keyboard where you type ; (a dead key) and then the letter - this gives you an accented letter. Actually much easier than finding extensions.
There's a bunch of other Greek layouts, too (eg. without dead keys if this is not your desired behavior).
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Thank you! I should have explained better: I use the Greek keyboard that comes with Windows but I haven't found out how to insert accents. In any case I had not thought of the Google Translate solution. It sounds quite useful. Thanks again. Regards, Stefania
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For use of the Greek language package in Windows, see this link: http://patristica.net/graeca/how-to-type-in-greek/. It works with Windows 10 as well. HTH, Daniel.
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The Greek keyboard layout makes the (English layout) semi-colon a dead key. Hit it then hit the vowel that needs the acute accent. For the words with a diaeresis, hit Shift+(English) semi-colon, then the vowel.
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There is a bug here where if you get it wrong, it will correct you by saying "firebrand," which is not related to torches in any capacity, but is most commonly used as a speech style.
Please explain the accents positions for Greek. Otherwise its a total guess and im guessing incorrectly.