Greek Alphabet Vs. Greek Using English Alphabet?

Do you mean to ask this:

You see Greek people sending text messages in Modern Greek, but using the Latin alphabet?

That is quite usual, and it even has got a name: Greeklish and a Wiki-entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish

Greeklish conveniently does away with a lot of spelling difficulties (Modern Greek is quite a headache if you want to get the spelling right). to make things look Greek, they use some Latin letters that look like Greek letters, but the pronunciation is Greek:

egw = εγω, pronounced ego

nolu = πολυ pronounced poli

etc.

Greek Alphabet Vs English Alphabet

Okay, this answer may only apply to ancient Greek, but here goes:

Any word that can be written in the Greek alphabet can be transliterated into Latin script (the alphabet in which English is written), although the reverse is not always the case.

Most of the letters which look the same in the two alphabets are the same, but there are a few "faux amis" where the letter looks the same but is pronounced differently. The best example of this is H, which is a capital Eta in Greek (pronounced as a long "ee" sound in Greek), but is the initial sound of "happy" in Standard English. Other examples are Y (a Greek Upsilon, pronounced as a "u" sound) and the letter X (a Greek Chi, pronounced as a "ch" or "kh" sound).

Learning to transliterate is not hard, although learning Greek is obviously a different matter. You might like to have a look at http://archive.org/details/grammarofatticio00babbr... for a start. Although it looks fiendishly complicated, an hour's practice will mean you can transcribe any Greek word into English. Have fun and good luck!

I just wanted to say that there's no such thing as english alphabet in this, the alphabet that English uses is the latin alphabet that also uses the Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, etcc language. It's called the latin alphabet, not english alphabet.

You mean, you see Greek transliterated into Latin letters?

It's not TRANSLATING. It's TRANSLITERATING. Look up the word.