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Post by beratsimistrec on Aug 20, 2008 21:31:07 GMT -5
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Post by MiG on Aug 20, 2008 21:41:19 GMT -5
^ A f**king dictionary? Dude are you retarded, or are you retarded? Give me a history book, or a history site with credibility, and then talk. Hahahaha you f**king turdsack.
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Post by beratsimistrec on Aug 20, 2008 22:00:11 GMT -5
So dictionaries don't have credibility? Geez my English teacher must have told me lies all these years lol. Slav is listed under the definition of the word slave. Let's just drop it ::offers Kleenex::
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Post by MiG on Aug 20, 2008 22:09:40 GMT -5
Man, Pyrros is 100x smarter than you boy, you need some education. Let me allow you to open your eyes, and then you can read further... The origin of the word Slav remains controversial. Excluding the ambiguous mention by Ptolemy of tribes Stavanoi and Soubenoi, the earliest references of "Slavs" under this name are from the 6th century AD. The word is written variously as Sklabenoi, Sklauenoi, or Sklabinoi in Byzantine Greek, and as Sclaueni, Sclauini, or Sthlaueni in Latin. The oldest documents written in Old Church Slavonic and dating from the 9th century attest slověne to describe the Slavs around Thessalonica. Other early attestations include Old Russian slověně "an East Slavic group near Novgorod", Slovutich "Dnieper river", and Serbian and Croatian Slavonica, a river.Scholars such as Roman Jacobson and others link the name with the Slavic forms sláva "glory", "fame" or slovo "word, talk" (both akin to slušati "to hear" from the IE root *ḱlew-). Thus slověne would mean "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, as opposed to the Slavic word for foreign nations, nemtsi, meaning "speechless people" (from Slavic němi - mute, silent, dumb). For example, the Polish word Niemcy means "Germans" or "Germany", as do the Serbian, Bosnian, Slovenian and Croatian words Nemci and Nijemci the Bulgarian word Nemtsi, and the Russian word "Nemyets" (Немец). There are two alternative scholarly theories as to the origin of the Slavs ethnonym, both very tentative: according to the first theory[8], it derives from a hypothetically reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos, cognate to Greek laós "population, people", which itself has no commonly accepted etymology. The second theory (forwarded by e.g. Max Vasmer) suggests that the word originated as a river name (compare the etymology of the Volcae), comparing it with such cognates as Latin cluere "to cleanse, purge", a root not known to have been continued in Slavic, however, and it appears in other languages with similar meanings (cf. Greek klyzein "to wash", Old English hlūtor "clean, pure", Old Norse hlér "sea", Welsh clir "clear, clean", Lithuanian šlúoti "to sweep").en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs#Origin_of_the_term_SlavRead more about us Slavs. We are very interesting. BTW, beratsimistrec... regmedia.co.uk/2008/02/20/football_fail.jpg
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Post by beratsimistrec on Aug 20, 2008 22:35:41 GMT -5
Whatever helps you sleep at night man. The dictionary still lists slav under the word slave. Lol
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Post by Anthologic on Aug 20, 2008 23:05:41 GMT -5
Hm, the only one "needing sleep" is you. There's nothing modern day albania has that's better than any ex-yu republic or slavic country for that matter, so the only thing left to do is degrade the origin of the name... which is pretty pathetic to begin with.
This deserves it's own thread, I'll open a new one.. and this one will be locked.
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Post by Anthologic on Aug 20, 2008 23:06:14 GMT -5
Also the Yugoslavia forum is not getting deleted.
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