Dobre rano, y'all! I recently returned from an awesome vacation/road trip, driving from Denver to San Francisco. We spent a day and a half in Salt Lake City, ...
I believe uzavrete manzelstva here just means contracted marriages ("closed/concluded" like in closing a legal arrangement or business deal). You're right,...
Hello all, Over the weekend, I saw an article (on a Slovak site) that stated America will do away with the traveler's visa for Slovakia by January (at the...
I just asked my wife to be sure, and she told me that we have a "uzavrete manzelstvo... uzavreli sme manzelstvo 19,6,2004..." So, a uzavrete manzelstvo is a...
Julie-- "while zmiesane manzelstva seems to mean "mixed marriage". Wish I'd looked at those, maybe it'd be obvious what they were--mixed Catholic and...
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Sep 2, 2008 1:25 pm
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Thanks, guys. Wish I'd looked at the mixed marriages, just out of curiosity, but it wasn't the time period I was searching, and I had really limited time at...
Ahoj, Julie, et.al.-- If you haven't done so already, here's a genealogy site that you might want to investigate. http://www.cyndislist.com/ It's worth a shot....
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Sep 2, 2008 3:44 pm
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I seem to be reading a lot about peasant life this year. Makes me feel better about not having a McMansion, I guess, since I'm so much better off than my...
Helen, you might be able to put this into Slovak, but over the weekend my cousin used this one: You give him a finger, he takes a hand. We laughed and...
This sounds very familiar. H ... Helen, you might be able to put this into Slovak, but over the weekend my cousin used this one: You give him a finger, he...
Rough translation, "Vy davat ciel jeden prst, on vziat jeden ruka". I know, I'm dangerous with this little pocket translator. Pozdravujute prosim, Skeeter ps--...
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Julie, I'm a long-term list member, but can't think of any potato-molasses connection. I asked my wife, who is also of Slovak extraction, and she cannot...
Paul, You DID mean to say "Sour Cream", rather then "Cream Cheese", didn't I? And, although I don't wish to be picky, it's "Break Out", not "Breat Out"....
On the molasses issue -- the cousins were curious about the dark junk in the bottle -- I said molasses -- or in England Strickle -- blank stares -- so I...
I've never heard of Grouply either. I'm concerned that it could be spam so I'm not opening it. edie ... From: Eve Smith To: Slovak-World Sent: Sunday, August...
Well, somewhat related. I do have a 2lb package of buckwheat flour that ccame from Mabry Mill along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, in the Appalachian...
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Sep 3, 2008 12:43 am
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Smart move. I've never heard of Grouply or panther7775, and even though I've got every piece of protection I can think of, I don't open up mail when it sounds...
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Sep 3, 2008 12:50 am
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Yah, i got rid of grouply. I was sucked in by a spammer. Bonnie Bonnie A. Dailey ... From: fbican@... <fbican@...> Subject: Re: [Slovak-World]...
Hey there, Molasses is in the Slovak kitchen, called melasa. I would not be surprised if potatos can be used for this production- especially if you have every...
... As Ben has already said, the phrase simply means "marriages registered [in this record]." ... Yes. The farther back we go under the Habsburgs, the more...
Hi Martin, this is an AMAZING idea about the English lexical confusion. I find that there is ALOT of confusion- and very often proliferated by the bilingual...
Not to disrespect Martin, as I'm sure he knows far more than I do, but these are the best free online dictionaries I've found ...
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Sep 3, 2008 4:48 am
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Molasses is a by-product of sugar. In the New World it was made from sugar cane. This is why France and England strove to maintain the island in the ...
While working in Lithuania in 1993 there were a number of instances where an (ethnic Russian) Lithuanian used the phrase "that is not convenient", with the...
Well, acording to my electronic translator, into Slovak, Inconvenient = nevhodny Impossible = nemozny I don't know if this is of any help. Kindest regards, ...
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Sep 3, 2008 9:30 am
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I may have mentioned this before, but thought it needs repeating. If you have a computer (and if you're here, you obviously do), and have a USB connector and...
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