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Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:40 pm

dzien dobry, is one simple bit of polish,that bagged me a waitress, fact of the day

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:42 pm

replace 'bagged' with meaningful cultural exchange..

Eosphoros · Post by **Eosphoros** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:59 pm

Mikey wrote:In some form or another, it's Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Old Slavonic (the original ecclesiastical language of my wife's church.)

Cool! I didn't expect to find someone who could speak Old Church Slavonic on a Star Trek forum.

I believe one of the first parts of the Bible translated in the vernacular tongue in my country was actually an Old Church Slavonic translation of the prologue of the Gospel by John. Let me see if I could remember: Iskoni bě Slovo, i Slovo bě u Boga i Bog bě Slovo.

Eosphoros · Post by **Eosphoros** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:59 pm

Mikey wrote:In some form or another, it's Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Old Slavonic (the original ecclesiastical language of my wife's church.)

Cool! I didn't expect to find someone who could speak Old Church Slavonic on a Star Trek forum.

I believe one of the first parts of the Bible translated in the vernacular tongue in my country was actually an Old Church Slavonic translation of the prologue of the Gospel by John. Let me see if I could remember: Iskoni bě Slovo, i Slovo bě u Boga i Bog bě Slovo.

DarkOmen · Post by **DarkOmen** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:14 pm

me and the buddies doing the "noble hunter" pose after we went on a shooting fest. We shot up an old computer... it was shredded. All the guns are mine actually lol, its my little collection. Im the one crouched down on the left.... with the AK47.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:19 pm

thats like a scene from 'night of the living dead', you're either superhumanly cool, or terrifying lol

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:25 pm

Who's the guy who was going to use the bayonet against an old computer?

Eosphoros wrote:Cool! I didn't expect to find someone who could speak Old Church Slavonic on a Star Trek forum.

I can't say that I have any real fluency... my wife is Ukrainian-rite Byzantine Catholic, which sect originally came to America as the Ruthenian Byzantine church... they rarely even use Old Slavonic anymore, instead conducting liturgies in Ukrainian and English. I can translate some basic vocabulary that has analogs in modern languages, like "slovo"=word, and "Bog/Boga"=G-d (In fact, after bedtime prayers, my wife has taught my daughter to say goodnight to "Bozhe" - the modern Ukrainian equivalent.)

My sister-in-law, who used to be a nun, is quite fluent - their church didn't convert to vernaculars at Pope John Paul I's allowance - they didn't change until the early '80's.

We also still use some Ukrainian, etc., in the house - instead of getting a Christmas tree, we get a "yelenka," and my mother sometimes asks about what happened to the pierogies when my wife has said she made "varenyky." In addition, part of my mother's family is Galician, so her Yiddish is inflected with Slavic-derived vocabulary.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:25 pm

Good Lord, all those are yours? What are you planing to do, invade another country?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:28 pm

You could probably take on the Irish army with that force!

A pity guns are illegal over here, I'd have a collection myself, other wise...

I make up for that loss with a collection of ancient weapons.

Post by **Mikey** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:30 pm

In other news, sources today reported the establishment of the Free State of California...

DarkOmen · Post by **DarkOmen** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:31 pm

Mikey wrote:Who's the guy who was going to use the bayonet against an old computer?

lol his name's steve, and we tried, but knife vs. metal computer case doesnt work so well.... that is a circa 1889 swiss schmidt rubin.... its a really cool rifle, has a straigt pull bolt. for 120 years old, its amazingly accurate and consistant.

GrahamKennedy wrote:Good Lord, all those are yours? What are you planing to do, invade another country?

Thats actually only some of them

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:57 pm

Me, I like higher tech weapons...

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:01 pm

DarkOmen wrote:me and the buddies doing the "noble hunter" pose after we went on a shooting fest. We shot up an old computer... it was shredded. All the guns are mine actually lol, its my little collection. Im the one crouched down on the left.... with the AK47.

I see you have another AK fan in your midst... it is probably a WASR-10, but nice none the less...

MetalHead · Post by **MetalHead** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:12 pm

...wow. Im impressed!

DarkOmen · Post by **DarkOmen** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:49 pm

Jim wrote: I see you have another AK fan in your midst... it is probably a WASR-10, but nice none the less...

Yay!! someone else who knows AK's!! it is a WASR10, but i modified it to take hi cap mags... its my beat up one.. .i have one of the 1952 series Soviet AK47s, the REAL AK47, but it stays at home... its too nice to go out and shoot. I have an SKS, an M44 carbine and full size mosin nagant so my dirty russian collection is well underway.

I want to get a 74 and a venezuelan 103, but i doubt it will happen, it was hard enough getting the two AKs i alredy have.

I plan on getting a Dragunov (it will probably be a Romainian one also, so technically not a dragunov) next month. And i want to get or make an RPK..

and i want a PKM too... sigh.

EDIT: YAY!! i got promoted!! *dances*