"Pavel Vozenilek" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Nick Sabalausky" wrote > >> There's also a couple things I don't have the slightest idea how to spell >> (so I'm just going to try to spell phonetically), and I'm not sure >> they're even Russian, but I know it's some sort of eastern-european >> language, I think Czech: "Yuck she mush" "Dovja". (My great-grandfather >> was Czech (IIRC) and taught my brother, sister and I that way back when >> he was still around.) >> > > Answering here as no valid email is given. > > The first means in Czech language "Jak se má¹?" (How are you? or Howdy?), > pronounced e.g. here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBsqWT90IU > and the second possibly "Dobøe" (Good or Well, as in 'Good, I'll do it'). >
Ahh, great to have correct spellings of those. And yea, "How are you?" "Good" is what I remember being tought. > > And one little thing: the Czech Republic is part of the Central Europe. > Saying it belongs to the Eastern Europe is a reliable way to upset > the Czechs, for rather complex historical reasons. > Good to know. I'm a total ignorant american when it comes to those things. Heck, I always figured Germany was eastern-europe (although not politically, I realize, just geographically). I guess not :) Umm, actually, I didn't even realize there was something considered "Central Europe", even though now that you mention it, I know I've heard that term before. Heh, yea, I guess I *really* need to read up on Europe a bit better :) Any idea about what Slovakia counts as? AIUI, waaay back when my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents were still over there, it was all still "Czechoslovakia". I have no idea which part of it they lived in.
