... My feelings exactly. A little less of the egregiously off-topic smartarse oneliner stuff is what this list needs:(. Then again, with Christmas coming up...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 6, 1999 12:29 am
Somebody mentioned Jachym Topol's "Sestra" a few days ago in answer to Paul's request for a good book to get his translating teeth into. The other day I came...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 6, 1999 12:01 am
Chambers' defines Sorb as "a Wend" and Sorbian, Sorbish as ... Crumbs ... The following was lifted from the British Library Slavonic and East European...
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Alastair Millar
alastair@xxx.xxx
Dec 5, 1999 6:59 pm
Melvyn - Many thanks for your confirmation - we've cracked it! ... bilingual ... These are indeed the same people. I also had always thought that Wends = ...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 5, 1999 5:34 pm
A warm welcome to newly subscribed members who responded to invitations sent out recently to JTP translators. As you can see from recent postings, quite a few...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 5, 1999 5:29 pm
... Obotrites - as you point out and as the name _An_ Historical Sketch suggests, the language used is rather antique. I always thought Sorbs = Wends =...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 5, 1999 12:09 pm
Well, I underlined (in ASCII fashion) the word "final" about my remark at the end of my posting on this topic, didn't I? But the following is a question to be...
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Alastair Millar
alastair@xxx.xxx
Dec 5, 1999 1:13 pm
Some digging around on the internet revealed an interesting paper on the "Germanisation of the lands between the Saale-Elbe and Oder". (Well, it was ...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 5, 1999 10:29 am
Yesterday I asked whether there are any Britons on this list, failing to realise that Melvyn is definitely one. Sorry, Melvyn, even before my downloading the...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Dec 5, 1999 12:26 am
... will ... I think you may have perfectly hit what it is all about. Habitually used "Cechy a Morava" do not go very well with the official "Ceska Republika"....
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@xx.xxx
Dec 5, 1999 12:03 am
... Well, if it is politically incorrect to admit some racism, then it is absolutely politically correct to say: "We have nothing to do with terrorists!" ...
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Alastair Millar
alastair@xxx.xxx
Dec 4, 1999 11:01 pm
Jirka - ... And what is Cesko that we might have an equivalent for it - other than being Bohemia, as your own quote suggests? ... Melvyn and I are both...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 4, 1999 7:04 pm
... Parts of Prague in the summer remind me of Disneyland anyway.... Michael...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 4, 1999 6:30 pm
... Don't tell that to someone from Hindustan! ... Funny how my accented a turned into an s-hacek at your end. I guess I'd better avoid accents as well as...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 4, 1999 6:25 pm
... I agree that "Czech" as the name of the country is unacceptable, but "Czechia" is weird and ugly. In fact, I think even "Slovakia"; only works because we...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 4, 1999 6:03 pm
... If someone from Rusko is a Rus, shouldn't someone from C<esko be a C<es? A C<ech should be someone from C<es<sko, right? Michael...
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Irena Steinerová
irena.steinerova@xxxx...
Dec 4, 1999 6:49 pm
... But what about Kurdistan, Afghanistan - and Absurdistan? (The last one seems to be quite appropriate name for this country anyway...) Personally, I don't...
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Irena Steinerová
irena.steinerova@xxxx...
Dec 4, 1999 6:50 pm
Hi Martin, you may find some interesting stuff on www.sci-fi.cz/ik/@... Irena...
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Martin Janda
martinjanda@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 3, 1999 10:32 am
... cousins. ... Depends on what you mean by the German equivalent of .... (beep)...:-) There is Tschechei, used by Nazis, which si not politically correct in...
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Martin Janda
martinjanda@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 3, 1999 10:28 am
... must ... Mostly Heinleins - Stranger in Strange Land is the most famous, I suppose. Some Zelaznys (a bit of the Amber serie), and Asimovs. Some fantasy and...
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BNovotna@xxx.xxx
Dec 4, 1999 4:56 pm
Does not "-stan" refer to lands of Islamic origin? Blanka Czechistan, substituting C< for Cz and maybe á for a, works equally well in both languages. ;-) ...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 4, 1999 4:41 pm
... after one year you have one Czech on your list - yourself, and one other member, Michael Grant. Thanks. There are actually 9 poeple on the list as of now...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 4, 1999 4:27 pm
I believe that "Bohemia" is the traditional English word for "Cechy" - not "Cesko". I'm not very much in favo(u)r (are there any Brits on the list, BTW?) of...
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Alastair Millar
alastair@...
Dec 4, 1999 4:34 pm
Having looked at the www.xlators.cz site, I can't see that it is actually doing anything except offering an online agency service. It certainly is *not* a...
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Kostas Zgafas
kzgafas@...
Dec 3, 1999 10:20 pm
... I have received their announcement. What they are trying is I believe very promising undertaking; it should help in shifting certain volume of work away...
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Michael Grant
mgrant@...
Dec 3, 1999 10:31 pm
... I'm sure their editorial staff has nothing to do with fulfillment (which is most likely outsourced anyway). Michael...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@...
Dec 3, 1999 10:27 pm
... Greetings Jirka, nice to see you contributing. Yes, as I understand it, after one year you have one Czech on your list - yourself, and one other member,...
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Alastair Millar
alastair@...
Dec 3, 1999 10:00 pm
Nazdar Jirko! ... Nice one - I hadn't noticed it on mine!!! Sad fact: Business Central Europe (a sister magazine of the Economist) supposedly specialises in...
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Melvyn Clarke
zehrovak@...
Dec 3, 1999 9:57 pm
Veleti, svaz slovanskych kmenu zvanych tez Lutici a usedlych zap. od dolni Odry (Ilustrovany encyklopedicky slovnik - Academia) In Von Lutzow's "Bohemia - An...
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Jirka Bolech
jirka.bolech@...
Dec 3, 1999 9:08 pm
Hi there, Maybe I should introduce myself a bit first: My name's Jirka Bolech and I live in Liberec, Czech Republic. I'm forty and have been a self-employed...
