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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
Date: 24 Jun 1995 23:22:59 +0200
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Terry Lambert  <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:

>Isn't it "The Czech Republic" and "Slovenia" (not "Slovakia")?

Hmm, 'ya know, i've got another native language than English, so i'm
not sure about the English wording.  Actually, they're calling
themselves `Slovaks'.  I don't speak that language, but i do
understand a bit of Czech.  I've thought `Slovenia' is part of the
former Yugoslavia, but then again: they all belong to the group of
Slavic languages, despite of their political differences they're all
so proud to demonstrate us these days. :-/

Btw., there's an even more interesting difference between another
couple of languages.  It's `Serbian'.  There's a small minority of
people living east of Dresden, they're called `sorbisch' (in German),
which is rather similar to `serbisch' (German word for `Serbian').
Actually, people only 100 km south (in Czech) do only have a single
word for both (`srbsky'), and they have to determine `sorbisch' by
attributing it with the geographical area (`Luzicke srbsky').

Basically proves that all these languages are rather related to each
other, and people speaking one of them usually don't have big problems
in understanding other folks of the same language family.

Hmm, guess it's a blessing that this group is ending in .misc. :-)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)