New York: The governor was told that "skata" means "zero" in Greek and… (video)

Probably a sly Greek behind the blunder that went viral

New York: They told the governor that "skata" means "zero" in Greek and ...

In many of his speeches, and especially these days with the pandemic hitting the state of New York, Andrew Cuomo uses the word "nothing" or "zero" to emphasize his point. And since there are citizens in New York who speak Greek, Spanish, Italian and other languages, Cuomo wants to put words in his speeches to address these citizens. Words like "nada" (s.s. nothing in Spanish), "niente" (s.s. nothing in Italian).

And at some point, the word "skata" came out of his mouth.

A few days ago, the Greek word used by the governor of New York came to the notice of a Greek-American woman, who uploaded a video on her Facebook page and wondered which Greek in New York told Andrew Cuomo that "shit" means "zero". ; ».

And as everything shows from the times when Andrew Cuomo repeated his phrase, it was probably too late to inform him about this mistake…