Of course Greece has had its own tricky relationships with the language: Demotic v. Koine in the liturgy (Google for "Gospel Riots"), Katharevousa v. Demotic in

Of course Greece has had its own tricky relationships with the language: Demotic v. Koine in the liturgy (Google for "Gospel Riots"), Katharevousa v. Demotic in print. Would one be astonished at the student who could read Latin comfortably, but was not proficient in Italian?