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sailors and fishermen. I assume that bankers are not workers in a bank?
Nikoljdan is posna slava (I don't know how to translate posna), and you must have fish, otherwise, you did nothing.
btw. Ioan sounds more similar to Serbian name Jovan, than together name Ivan. And Jovan is John in English, and Ivan was used in the middle ages (Ivan Kosancic, look at the pictures site).
And namesday, how is it called in Bulgarian? Tell me about it more.
Traveller
07-12-2005, 18:00
Bankers are exactly workers in a bank (i.e. economists, businessmen etc; so in some form it's in my old specialty from school (Finances and Management)).
I'm not sure what "posna slava" is. "Slava" on Bulgarian means "glory" and "posna" is close to our "postna" - "Lenten/meatless" in feminine form. So, "meatless glory"? :wink:
And no wonder that Ioan is close to Jovan - remember we're not only from the same "big group" (Slavic), but also the same subgroup (South-Slavic). But I think Ivan is more Russian (just like Nikolay is Russian for our Nikola), although I'm not so sure and it might have been used in the middle ages too.
And namesday on Bulgarian is "imen den". Why? And what do you want to know?
I just wanted to know if namesday is similar to slava. Slava is in this case more like celebrating than glory. Each family has it's own patron saint, and celebrates his day. My familly's is Sveti Djordje (George), but not Djurdjevdan, his day, but Djurdjic (C like ц, not ћ), day when his bones were transfered somewhere, I'm not sure were. We, Serbs, should be the only people who has this tradition. The Byzantines used this trick when converting us, because we didn't want to give up on our pagan customs. They just swapped patron gods with patron saints...
And posna isn't quite meatless, you can eat fish meat. It feminime form of adjective posan derrived from noun post.
I'm really sorry for your parents, Dobber. I hope they get better soon.
FrankishHero
08-12-2005, 04:00
Plan for Weekend: The Feyenoord - PSV Eindhoven match.
GO FEYENOORD.
Traveller
08-12-2005, 12:03
I just wanted to know if namesday is similar to slava. Slava is in this case more like celebrating than glory. Each family has it's own patron saint, and celebrates his day. My familly's is Sveti Djordje (George), but not Djurdjevdan, his day, but Djurdjic (C like ц, not ћ), day when his bones were transfered somewhere, I'm not sure were. We, Serbs, should be the only people who has this tradition. The Byzantines used this trick when converting us, because we didn't want to give up on our pagan customs. They just swapped patron gods with patron saints...
And posna isn't quite meatless, you can eat fish meat. It feminime form of adjective posan derrived from noun post.
Well, it's not only Serbs, which replaced godly divinities with saintly divinities! At least we did too. And I'd say more or less all the Christian nations did so! Maybe it's more unique for Serbians that your namesday is of the family (if I've understood right). While we just celebrate our own names, i.e. I'm Nikolay and so I celebrate on Nikulden, my dad's Ventsislav, so he celebrates on Tsvetnitsa (because he's "ventsi" - "wreaths", which is close to flowers).
Btw my dictionary gives for our "posten" the English word "Lenten", but I hadn't heard it before, so I'm not sure. IIRC, on German it's "fasten"...
P.S. My plan for weekend - tomorrow I go to my grandfather to celebrate a little late Nikulden (he's also Nikolay) and then on Saturday - my first university exam, on which I'll most probably fail...
On Saturday, there's a ball at the dance school, from 8pm till 3am. That will be fun. :biggrin:
How is your mum, Dobber?
How is your mum, Dobber?
Mom is stable, it will be @ 4 weeks before skin grafts can be done. She faces surgery every 2-3 days until that time. They must keep her flesh from scabbing over while they await the skin to be ready. Dad is staying near the hospital and spends the days at the hospital to be near her.
We all hope she will be better, Dobber
Mircoslavux
16-12-2005, 11:22
halloo weekend is there,
I hope, will buy some christmas presents for family...
... :go:
Webmaster
16-12-2005, 11:55
today, D&D, we have to deal with some dwarfs to get a save passage through their dungeons
tomorrow, helping a friend moving to a new flat
sunday, traveling to mannheim watching icehockey frankfurt lions vs. h5n1
next week, enjoying me freetime ;)
Saturday-visiting my Mom at the hospital!
Mircoslavux
23-12-2005, 10:58
hi all,.
how you will spend your X-mas time?
:go:
Traveller
25-12-2005, 09:40
Tomorrow I'm going here (http://www.plovdivguide.com/) - in the old town of Plovdiv (with all the amphitheatre, Revival houses, small cosy streets etc.)! Unfortunately, I'll be coming back the same day...
Mircoslavux
30-12-2005, 09:51
so how will you spend this special weekend,
your silvester night?
parties? fireworks?....
:cheers:
hawk_knight
30-12-2005, 11:39
i will spend this weekend with parties :cheers:
and some fireworks :cheers:
Happy new year everybody :cheers: :cheers:
I will be spending my weekend with my christmas gift from my granddaughter, Medieval-Total War!
LittleFreak
31-12-2005, 17:08
I'll have some fun with a good friend. Though I'm not sure what we actually planned to do today, but I guess it involves fireworks, drinks and chicks. :silly:
... I'm not really in the mood to party, but I won't stay at home on new years eve I guess. ^^
Mircoslavux
06-01-2006, 10:27
hola halo...
first full weekend in 2006 is here and you?
:go:
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