We have a few Slovakian friends on Facebook..

[sniffa]

Wonderful people that I worked with for a while and that we had many great memories with (Slovakian Party is still a common phrase we use) and who are now in other parts of the world. We're very grateful to have found them on FB as we can be in touch again.

That being said, could they stop typing in Klingon? Sure I can write on their wall or something but 90% of their updates leave me thinking of Shatner. Can't they stop being selfish and accommodate my laziness in not learning another language or even going to a translator sight?

I know "di me pevo" and "di me votku" and that should be enough.

[AlCzervik]

1. we have many of them in norcal, i wish they were a nice as your friends

but they aren't and i won't post anymore about that because it will get deleted.

[InternalDialogue]

2. Are they anything like the Bohemians?

Fucking Bohemians...

:mad:

[no name no slogan]

3. My heritage is 5/16 Slovak

In fact, my last name is Slovak. I've got Slovaks on both sides of the family tree (one who first emigrated to Prague before coming here), and yet I don't know a word of Slovak.

Just be lucky they're not Turkish-- those guys have all sorts of weird crap dangling off their letters.

[KamaAina]

4. Figures you'd know "di me pevo"

translation: "I am a pev." :evilgrin:

(or in certain dialects, "give me a beer" :beer: )

[bicentennial_baby]

5. The latter:

Sounds like "Da-mey Pee-vo"

etc.

Good parties. :D

[KamaAina]

6. Makes sense

I only knew that because the widow of The Best Blogger In The History Of Mankind, New Orleans' H. Ashley Morris, Ph.D., is Czech (closely related to Slovak), so Ash would occasionally throw in Czech words like pivo (spelled with an 'i').

[sniffa]

7. I also used to know the term for a "fancy woman"

which is what the Hungarian Slovak used to refer to herself as in English but all of the other Slovakian Slovaks derisively called her in their native language - which also means prostitute. It was apt.