On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:57:42 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke
wrote:

There are some other instances in the world, e.g. in Greece where they
have a high brow register "Katharevousa" ("pure language") which is
intentionally constructed to be similar to Ancient Greek, and an
everyday register "Dimotiki" ("folk language").

This distinction is obsolete, especially since the language reform of
1976, which abolished all accents and "breathings" except for the
acute accent. Greeks today speak and write a single language.