Macedonians were barbarians for Elins

[MACEDONIAN MACEDONIA]

I Would like to read some comments about my title.
The Truth?
Macedonians like Filip II ,Aleksandar {of Macedonia}{The Great} were not Elins nor Greeks.

[Telly]

... they just happened to be able to read and write in Greek, be educated in Greek and by Greeks, spread Greek culture and civilization. In fact everything about them was Greek. By all means, try to make me understand wat was NOT Greek about them. Their names maybe ? Or maybe you'd care to tell me about the mysterious Macedonian but non-Greek language of which NEVER even a trace has been found.

[MACEDONIAN MACEDONIA]

I can speak,and write in English,
That don't make me English nor American.
p.s.
In Jamaica English is spoken,they are not English>

[Flipper]

Correction...For some Athenians during a time when Athens and Macedonia had bad relations.

But so was the Megarians, the Accarneans, the Aeolians of Lesbos and Minor Asia. So were they barbarians as well? Ofcourse not...

The Spartans called the Athenians barbarous or even worse foreigners. Where they? Ofcourse not.

And you use the word barbarian like if it means "foreigner". Barbarian comes from the repetition of the word "bar" which means stutter. Therefore it was used for Greeks of non Ionic descend and foreigners. The Dorian speech was a funny dialect back then. A comedy was written about the Macedonian way speech. You have also the Megarian laugh which was another Doric dialect.

For your info the word for foreigner is: Xenos (Attic) or Xinos (Doric), mi-Ellin (means non-Greek) and allodapos (born in another land)

You say you read and write in English. You're comparing a globalized society of today with the society 2300+ years ago. Plus the macedonians spoke the language before the Hellenistic era that Macedonians spread.

But lets say this is ok. You don't know that Greeks used breathing and emphasis accents that makes it possible to understand if someone is speaking Greek natively or not. How come the Hellenized anatolians e.g seem to do breathing and pronounciation mistakes while Macedonians are flawless when writting even in Attic which was not their native dialect?

So, do you have any linguistic analysis on the matter or am I wasting my time. In case you have a can do a deep comparisson between many Greek dialects

Ofcourse, the language you speak today has nothing to do with any language of the Balcans back then, whether it was greek paionian, illyrian, phrygian, turkic, etruskan, tyrhenian or whatever.

[Ptolemy]

I wonder when it will the first time someone of these West-Bulgarians from FYROM will post sth worthy even to comment and wont be another sample of undiluted gibberish.

[Spartan]

"Filip II ,Aleksandar {of Macedonia}{The Great} were not Elins nor Greeks."

Lets make a few corrections first.

The name is Philipos and Alexandros. There is never a single mention of either of them being called anything else but by their Greek names.

This is not a jab, but just a correction. It is Hellenes not Elins. This is so everyone will understand what you are posting.

[Istor]

Macedonians had always Greek names, toponyms, ways, heroes, gods, dialect and spread greek Language and Civilization to the World. Macedonians named after Greek names ALL the cities they built or renamed.

Macedonians not ONLY spoke Greek, but they DID spread Greek Language and Civilization to the World. If you SlavoSkopian do the same thing we will call you Macedonians.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Spartan

"Filip II ,Aleksandar {of Macedonia}{The Great} were not Elins nor Greeks."

Lets make a few corrections first.

The name is Philipos and Alexandros. There is never a single mention of either of them being called anything else but by their Greek names.

This is not a jab, but just a correction. It is Hellenes not Elins. This is so everyone will understand what you are posting.

I have quoted this again so the slavo skopian can read it again. please use the proper names that were used by the macedonians themselves in their daily lives, gravestones ect, do not slav them and expect us to take you seriously.

[edessa]

hey macedonia macedonians (lol wat a user name)
can you please tell me what macedonia, makedonija, makedoncite, etc means in your language? and dont give me any of that 'majka dona' crap as that will just prove your low IQ to us
go hard you mighty internet warrior, i am sure you will free the invisible oppressed macedonians in greece over the comfort of your bedroom pc

[Slayer]

I was wondering how you English improved so much then I realised what a great copy and paste job you did.

Can I give you some advise, I doubt anyone here will read these long posts especially when you don't tell us who actually wrote this 3000 word rant.

Was it stefou (stefov)?
Was it Makedonski?

These are obviously not your own thoughts and conclusions.