Ο Ξενοφών Ζολώτας πέρα από τις οικονομικές του γνώσεις (υπήρξε ένας από τους κορυφαίους οικονομολόγους της Ελλάδας), είχε ευρύτατη μόρφωση με ιδιαίτερη λατρεία για την ελληνική γλώσσα. Ιστορική έχει μείνει η ομιλία που είχε κάνει στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 1957 αλλά και στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959 στην Ουάσιγκτον. Οι ομιλίες του εντυπωσίασαν ιδιαίτερα και έστρεψαν τα βλέμματα στην Ελλάδα. Ο κύριος λόγος ήταν ότι όλες οι λέξεις που εκφώνησε στα αγγλικά είχαν ελληνική προέλευση!
Οι ιστορικοί λόγοι του Ζολώτα στα Αγγλικά με Ελληνικές λέξεις
Το κοινό που παρακολουθούσε την ομιλία που έδωσε στο ΔΝΤ έμεινε άναυδο και ο λόγος του Ζολώτα, ιστορικός
► 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 1957
I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed “Greek” to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, l shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.
Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizes and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.
► 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959
Ύστερα από δύο χρόνια ο Ξενοφών Ζολώτας τον Οκτώβριο του 1959 εκφώνησε έναν δεύτερο λόγο εκτενέστερο στον οποίο χρησιμοποίησε περισσότερες αγγλικές λέξεις
Kyrie, it is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices.Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic.
In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme.A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymοus organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies.The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.
I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology.In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochtons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
Οι λόγοι του Ζολώτα ανέδειξαν τη σημασία της ελληνικής γλώσσας σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο
Ξενοφών Ζολώτας: Ο στυλοβάτης της ελληνικής μεταπολεμικής οικονομίας
