demotic italiaksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-italia)

Of or for the common people.
Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient Egypt.
demotic Greek
Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

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