Excerpts from authentic papers by Greek High School students (be it Composition or answers to an exam):
-"A misogynist is a half-woman monster" (clearly confusing miso=half with misos=hatred; at least they got right the gynaeca=woman)
-"In ancient times there were no foreign countries, and that's why no ancient passports have ever been discovered"
-"Leonidas and his 300 were defeated in the end, because the Thermopylae were much more numerous'
-"The Odyssey was written by Odysseus himself, while the Iliad was written by Prophet Ilias."
-"Ceylon is now Sri Lanka. Its capital has always been Lipton".
-"Vitamins (in Greek, the letter Beta is called Veta) are just in the middle between Alphamins and Gammamins".
-"`The opposite of the Holy Trinity is the Devil's Trinity, consisting of fire, woman and sea".
-"Banana in Greek is spelled just like in English, with one ba and two nas."
-"Jacques-Yves Cousteau is a modern Odysseus. His adventures were named the Coustody."
- "Rasputin's mother was Rasputana, a huge Russian whore exiled to Siberia for her sins".
-The Arabs' most terrible weapon was the Eunuch."
-"Greeks invented Geometry to get rid of the tyranny of Arabic Algebra".
-"Gravity is particularly strong in autumn, when you can see apples falling from their trees en masse".