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[hckošice 14,843]

11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

 

 

Don't be too hard, it's just and old dude and like most people in most of the world (let alone China) he has no idea how this whole ice hockey thing works  

 

Apart from that, 550 spectactors is the lowest ever? That's a seriously high number for a "lowest ever" record 

 

yes, the first throw was just hilarious ..but the correction attempt throw number 2 was even more. I was dead when I saw the faces of the players they didn´t knew what it´s going on at all...

 

but yes ok, he is old and clearly had absolutely no clue about...but come on, if you are vip and invited and honored to open a match, it´s just the basic thing to search somewhere in the web or just ask hey! what have I do ? to avoid the shame

 

well, 550 is for a championship which basic idea is to be the main concurrence of the NHL a very very poor number

[bestmen 2,822]

the hurricane Matthew climbs to the category 5

 

[Federer91 2,801]

Mike Tyson entered our Celebrity Big Brother for 2-3 days.  He really doesn't give a F what he does anymore. 

[dcro 10,210]

Singapore changed their country code for sporting events from SIN to SGP

 

http://mothership.sg/2016/09/singapore-no-longer-known-as-sin-but-sgp-in-sporting-events/

[heywoodu 15,168]

10 hours ago, dcro said:

Singapore changed their country code for sporting events from SIN to SGP

 

http://mothership.sg/2016/09/singapore-no-longer-known-as-sin-but-sgp-in-sporting-events/

That is freaking annoying  

 

Now I'll always read Singapore's name as "Summer Grand Prix", "Speedway Grand Prix" or even worse, "Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij", the insanely strict Christian political party here in the Netherlands (not a big party nationally, but nearly the biggest in my little overly Christian town  ) 

[dcro 10,210]

17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That is freaking annoying  

 

Now I'll always read Singapore's name as "Summer Grand Prix", "Speedway Grand Prix" or even worse, "Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij", the insanely strict Christian political party here in the Netherlands (not a big party nationally, but nearly the biggest in my little overly Christian town  ) 

 

Well, they don't want people to think that Singapore is a SIN city.

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Users from the Balkan nations: I found a book in our garage which is mostly about the conflict in Serbia/Kosovo at the end of the 1990's, you know what I mean. In it, there are some lists of words, like a little dictionary for the users of the book to translate some basic stuff into Serbo-Croatian. Now I'm not much of an expert and internet doesn't provide me with a clear enough answer to my curiousity, so: if I learn a few of those basic words which I found interesting, to who exactly can I say stuff like "Hello" and "Thanks"?  

 

I did notice "Hvala" was in there which I already know is "Thanks" (in Serbian? Not sure exactly, I know ski jumper Jaka Hvala's name means 'Thanks' in some language), but since I didn't know something called "Serbo-Croatian" existed, it got me curious as to how much it's actually used in every day speech  

[dareza 911]

On 4.10.2016. at 14:40, heywoodu said:

Users from the Balkan nations: I found a book in our garage which is mostly about the conflict in Serbia/Kosovo at the end of the 1990's, you know what I mean. In it, there are some lists of words, like a little dictionary for the users of the book to translate some basic stuff into Serbo-Croatian. Now I'm not much of an expert and internet doesn't provide me with a clear enough answer to my curiousity, so: if I learn a few of those basic words which I found interesting, to who exactly can I say stuff like "Hello" and "Thanks"?  

 

I did notice "Hvala" was in there which I already know is "Thanks" (in Serbian? Not sure exactly, I know ski jumper Jaka Hvala's name means 'Thanks' in some language), but since I didn't know something called "Serbo-Croatian" existed, it got me curious as to how much it's actually used in every day speech  

Hello is Zdravo and Thanks is Hvala

 

Well, peoples for example before 90 learned Serbo-Croatian in school. It was some like lingua franca. There were 3 forms: ekavski (Serbia), ijekvaski (in Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and in some part of Serbia ) and ikavski (I think that is some part of Croatia there is still ikvaksi, but Im not sure).

 

one example: word lepo (nicely): ekavski (lepo), ijekavski (lijepo), ikavski (lipo)

 

Also people from Macedonia and Slovenia understand all of us very well, but we have problem with their languages I almost don't understand Slovenian 

Edited October 5, 2016 by dareza

[dcro 10,210]

On 04.10.2016. at 14:40, heywoodu said:

I did notice "Hvala" was in there which I already know is "Thanks" (in Serbian? Not sure exactly, I know ski jumper Jaka Hvala's name means 'Thanks' in some language), but since I didn't know something called "Serbo-Croatian" existed, it got me curious as to how much it's actually used in every day speech  

 

That's how it was called during the Yugoslavian times. But, yeah, people speaking Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian can easily understand each other as there isn't much difference.

[heywoodu 15,168]

Thanks  

 

I'll get to learn some basic words then, always good to learn a little bit from many languages