Modern Greek is another beautifully impure language. Demotic poetry and literature, especially from the turn of the 20th century, makes full use of its linguis

Modern Greek is another beautifully impure language. Demotic poetry and literature, especially from the turn of the 20th century, makes full use of its linguistic syncretism: local idioms, loan-words and phrases that accent the lines with "images of the time and place" or of the social status of the narrator.