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Traveller
11-01-2006, 08:06
Padezh - case, according to my dictionary. And because I have actually no idea, I just pick D) č.
Xuca
11-01-2006, 11:39
You are wrong. Four more answers are left.
Elvain
11-01-2006, 12:57
it is ć

I have seen this sign only in croatian names (and serbian if transscribed into latin alphabet)
Xuca
11-01-2006, 16:18
Yes, ć is only in Croatian, but it wasn't invented by Djura Danicic.

He just invented one letter, all the others were originally in the Croatian latin alphabet.
LittleFreak
11-01-2006, 17:24
B.

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Xuca
11-01-2006, 18:08
Correct !
Sentra
11-01-2006, 21:43
Darn it, I almost took đ because my intuition told me so... :lol: Always trust your intuition... đ like in rođen sam u zagrebu. And yea, I got the case wrong, it must have been želim ti lijepe snove, right? One of my best friends is Croatian, and I love to learn some Croatian from her :smile:

Well, I'm looking forward to the next question :cool:
Traveller
12-01-2006, 08:37
Darn it, I almost took đ because my intuition told me so... :lol: Always trust your intuition... đ like in rođen sam u zagrebu. And yea, I got the case wrong, it must have been želim ti lijepe snove, right? One of my best friends is Croatian, and I love to learn some Croatian from her :smile:

Well, I'm looking forward to the next question :cool:
Hah, I had some intuition for the same answer too! :lol:
Btw what does that "želim ti lijepe snove" mean? I could only guess "I want..." if it's close enough to Bulgarian...
Xuca
12-01-2006, 11:35
Litteraly, it means "I wish you nice dreams", but it more means "sleep tight". I don't know if there's an expression with dreams in English.

btw. if anyone wants some explenation:

After the Vienna agreement between Serbs and Croats, where Serbo-Croatian was born, Djura Danicic offered to make the Croatian alphabet more phonetic, like Serbian. So he invented Đđ, wich was previously written as dj. And it's Đura Daničić (notice that I don't do anything about č and ć, but put dj instead đ, it's very common).

And ћ, that's cyrilic for ć, carefully disguised as h with a stroke. It's the main reason why I put all small letters, since the capital Ћ doesn't look so h-ish.
Elvain
12-01-2006, 11:55
Hah, I had some intuition for the same answer too! :lol:
Btw what does that "želim ti lijepe snove" mean?

it means "Přeji ti hezké sny" česky "žeľám ti pekné sny" po slovensky ...
with some small knowledge of Slovakian and Czech one can understand croatian :)

btw, I'm curious what did you mean, Traveller... was it something like "voulez vous coucher avec moi?" or rather "je veux coucher avec toi" ??? :lol: to use language of romantics
Traveller
12-01-2006, 12:16
it means "Přeji ti hezké sny" česky "žeľám ti pekné sny" po slovensky ...
with some small knowledge of Slovakian and Czech one can understand croatian :)

btw, I'm curious what did you mean, Traveller... was it something like "voulez vous coucher avec moi?" or rather "je veux coucher avec toi" ??? :lol: to use language of romantics
Ah, Ok. Btw I should've guessed if I thought more - lijepe should obviosly be close to "good, nice, beatiful", cuz I think the famous (at least here in the recent past) Serbian singer Lepa Brena meant Pretty Brena or something like that... And snove is not that far from sanishta...
And sorry, Elvain, but I don't speak French. I should ask my father of what you said, he has learned a little of it some time ago. Although I have the feeling I know what you meant and - no, I didn't mean that. Actually I udnerstood only "I want" and the rest was left as "...", not as "... You know..." :wink:
Elvain
12-01-2006, 12:40
don't ask your father :lol: coucher means sleep, voulez vous do you want moi is I/me ehm, I think you can understand it now :smile:
LittleFreak
12-01-2006, 15:42
OK, new question. From early history. =D

Which Mesopotamian Empire was the earliest?

a) Babylonia
b) Assyria
c) Sumer
d) Akkad
Sentra
12-01-2006, 18:28
c - Sumer

They have extremely interesting legends, by the way. The Gilgamesh epic, for example.

And Xuca was right... I used it in the sense of "I wish you nice dreams."
LittleFreak
12-01-2006, 19:43
Some of them are interesting, others are actually pretty scary.

Anyways, correct. Your turn. =D
Sentra
12-01-2006, 20:25
How did the Mayas call their most famous calendar, their "sacred" calendar (they had 17)?

A) Tzolk'in
B) Zuvuya
C) Hunab Ku
D) Tele'kton'on
E) Chilam Balam
Xuca
12-01-2006, 20:47
A)

You already posted a question like this:

http://forum.sunflowers.de/showpost.php?p=118717&postcount=1246
Sentra
12-01-2006, 23:42
DARN! You're right... :blush:
I began translating another book about that Maya calendar today... So that's why history repeats itself, this time :blush:

Your turn!
(But I bet you can't translate the other terms... hehe)
Xuca
13-01-2006, 11:40
Out of the seven wonders of the world, which is the oldest:

A)the Colossus of Rhodes
B)the Great Pyramid of Giza
C)the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
D)the Lighthouse of Alexandria
E)the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
F)the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Sentra
13-01-2006, 18:55
I would say, B, the pyramids of Gizah