Excellent, let us know all about that, sounds like quite an adventure! By the way, in complete contrast to this posting, I will be entertaining one of my...
Agencies call the explosion Slovakia's largest industrial disaster. Early reports speak of several dozen injured, perhaps 10 seriously. Several people were...
I came across your e-mail again today, as I was deleting old messages. I went to Slovakia in November 2005, and would like to return. I would appreciate the...
SLOVAK-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ANNOUNCEMENT The SASW Speakers' Series presents a talk and book discussion by Mr. Jim Lukach, Author of _Lost Inside the...
Here in Northeast PA, there is a TV commercial that I have heard/saw several times. It is one of those commercials that is just trying to rise your curiosity...
Maxine: Yes, it means, "how are you," but the new Slovak says, "Ako sa mate?" All the old Slavics in our area say it the old way. The answer is...very well,...
"Jak s~e mas~" is how the eastern dialects say it, even to this day. Since such a huge percentage of immigrants to the US came from the eastern parts of...
And in PA where I grew up, the response to "Jak se mas" I most often heard was: Dobre, ta jak followed by a "Dobre" from the original greeter. and there...
This is the right one. I just can not recall a Slovak to say :" Thank you, good..." They all say "Tak, pomaly.." This is a kind of downplaying, maybe of fear...
Yesterday I was in Levoca. A young mother ( has a small pension) told me, they don't have english lessons any more in the school of her son (8 years). The...
"Pomaly" (lit.: slowly) means "so-so". H ... And in PA where I grew up, the response to "Jak se mas" I most often heard was: Dobre, ta jak followed by a...
"Magyar" is Hungarian (adj.) or a Hungarian person (n.). "Magyarorszag" is the official name of Hungary. H ... Doesn't Magyar mean Hungary in Hungarian? Sent...
Reason I ask is that the web site below shows the following info: PEOPLE: The principal ethnic majority are the Slovaks who account for around 85% of the...
To answer the original question, they are different. Magyar = Hungarians, Roma = Gypsies Both are words in their own languages, how they refer to themselves,...
... Hah! That's the answer one of my uncles back in Michigan gives to me when I talk to him, but then he's 84 and had knee surgery. So he's got every right...
thanks for the reponses to my question about gypsies and magyar. In my senior moment, I confused Roma with Magyars. My apologies if I offended anyone. Jim M. ...
Ahoj all... Please mark your calendars for Saturday, March 31, it will time for the Patronage of the Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Church's Easter Bazaar...
http://www.patronagechurch.com/ Click around and you will find it. The church is in Baltimore. Thought I might be able to make it, but I'll be in Baltimore on...
Hi All: Remember the commercial I told you about that is on TV. It was on CNN and at the end of the Yuk SE Mush commercial the advertiser is DOUBLE TREE. It...
Many of you new members to Slovak World haven't been introduced to a great web page named...The Carpathian Connection. Its web page is http://www.tccweb.org/...
BATTLE OF THE DUKLA PASS LECTURE BRIDGEPORT, CT, APRIL 20, 2007: The New England Chapter of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society will host an interesting lecture and...
George Washington University, with the assistance of the embassies of Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, as...
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