It's all Greek to me.
A few days ago, I was on Tates Creek rd, and I see this sign that said: GREEK bake sale. I thought, okay, a sorority decided to do a fund-raiser - and I guess it wouldn't be that far of a stretch for them to come out to a busier road to get more people. I later realize that this is right next to the orthodox Greek church and thus had nothing to do with the Greek of campus.
At the beginning of the semester, I received an email telling about some activities that were to take place on campus, one of them being a Pan-Hellinic ice cream social. For some reason, the first thing that popped into my head was that the classics department was trying to recruit. I later realized that this was not true, and that it had to do with the Fraternities and Sororities.
I feel like, at least in my life - and yes a bit of it by chance, that there is a lot of ambiguity in the word Greek; and that unlike - I have to go to the bank before going to the club - these signs/messages had nothing to clear it up the ambiguity.
It is surprising how that many meanings of one word can enter into your life and make it difficult to know which one is being referred to.

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