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Ο Ξενοφών Ζολώτας ήταν διευθυντής της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος όταν εμφανίστηκε μπροστά σε κοινό, σε συνέδριο της Διεθνούς Τράπεζας Ανασυγκρότησης και Ανάπτυξης το 1959.

Εκφώνησε δύο ομιλίες στα αγγλικά χρησιμοποιώντας σχεδόν μόνο ελληνικές λέξεις για να τονίσει τον πλούτο της ελληνικής γλώσσας και να καταδείξει το γεγονός ότι αμέτρητες ελληνικές λέξεις βρίσκονται στην ετυμολογική ρίζα της αγγλικής γλώσσας.

Η αγγλοελληνική ομιλία του Ζολώτα που εκφωνήθηκε στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959 έχει ως εξής:

Kyrie,

It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch and the heresy of our economic method and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize nomismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic strategic and philanthropic scopes.

In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, 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.

Nomismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and nomismatic archons is basic.

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

The history of our didimus organization on 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 one or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and nomismatic policies.

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

(Πηγή: Lifo)

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1. Paul ……. to Rome at 8 o’clock.                                                                            a. is flying                                     b. will fly
2. I think she ……. to my party.                                                                                 a. will not come                           b. is not coming
3. It’s so cold in here. I …… my jacket.                                                                    a. am putting on                          b. will put on
4. Look at that car! It ….. crash!                                                                               a. is going to                                  b. will
5. Ann and Bill ….. married on the 15th March.                                                    a. will get                                       b. are getting
6. What are your plans for Sunday? -I ….. to the beach with my sister.           a. will go                                        b. am going
7. In the future, people …… flying cars.                                                                   a. will have                                    b. are having