All-history thread - Verze k tisku +- Bronies.cz (https://bronies.cz) +-- Fórum: English speaking section (https://bronies.cz/Forum-English-speaking-section) +--- Fórum: English OffTopic (https://bronies.cz/Forum-English-OffTopic) +--- Téma: All-history thread (/Vlakno-All-history-thread) |
RE: All-history thread - Mácaman - 05.06.2015 Its similar to the story why old Romans called barbarians barbarians. When noble Romans met "wild" germanian tribes, their language sounds like dog barkling to them - "barbarbar" - sou they called them "barbarians"... RE: All-history thread - Jamis - 08.06.2015 German people in Czech are sometimes not-so-polite referred as "skopčáci" which means "those who comming from hills" - in past, the border mountains of Czech Republic was settled by German people who comes to Czech villages in lowlands. RE: All-history thread - Kinro - 14.06.2015 In Interwar Poland, in 1937, Julian Tuwim wrote a fascinating poem, called "Wiersz, w którym autor grzecznie, ale stanowczo, uprasza liczne zastępy bliźnich aby go w dupę pocałowali" (A poem wherein the author politely but firmly requests numerous hosts of fellow men to kiss his ass) Couldn't find a Czech translation or even mentioning in media, so I'll post the English translation. Tuwim was a man of Skamandryci group who were against... well... everything and who fondly used coloquialisms, neologisms and offensive language to express their feelings. RE: All-history thread - Kinro - 13.07.2015 Though Wagenburg tactic was originally Czech, they were mostly used in Poland, during wars with Teutonic Knights (15th century) and cossacks, Sweden and Russia (17th century) In that case, Polish though Wagenburgs were Polish (or German, due to its name), and, unfortunately, not many people know it has a Czech origin as a vozová hradba, the rampart made of carts (amirite?) RE: All-history thread - Keranis - 13.07.2015 The "cart ramparts" or whatever were just one of many improvisations Hussites had to make in order to fight Zikmund's armies. Another popular example are the farm tools they used as weapons. Flails are usualy used to seperate the wheat from the chaff, but who's to say you can't cave in some poor sod's skull with it? That reminds me: Around that time the first gunpowder weapons were making an appearence in the middle Europe. The long, primitive rifles were called "píšťaly" (whistles), and later the word "pistol" was born from that. The more you know! RE: All-history thread - Kinro - 29.07.2015 It's been quite a long time since last post, again Btw. That pistol thing really made me curious. And, to flails: in Poland we have a sayin' "simple as battle flail's structure" (sometimes "simple like flail") Now, to the battles: In 1694, in Hodów, there was a battle, where 400 dismounted hussars won with c.a. 40k Tatars. When they ran out of pistol balls, they loaded guns with Tatar arrows from the terrain around. 1944, British attack the German bunker. Then, there was a single shot and whole bunker team gets out and surrender; they shot the German officer when found out Alliance will help to rid off the Germans from their country. (However, then we became dependent (what, is that a word?) ON Soviet Union) Do you know why tanks are called tanks? Because of keeping them in secret from German spies, and they looked like moving water/fuel tanks. So, in 1944 one of Polish officers declared "we will call these machines... czołgi (crawlers), because they crawl." Lastly, when sultane Mehmed IV wanted cossacks to give up, they answered like "fuck you, you are dumb and you can't even kill a hedgehog with your own ass" (mostly like that, I advise to look on the wiki, it's pretty funny tho) @edit Oops. Typing while being exhausted is not a good idea. RE: All-history thread - Keranis - 30.07.2015 (29.07.2015, 21:26)Kinro Napsal(a): "fuck you, you are dumb and you can't even kill a hedgehog with your own ass" Okay, that's hilarious And the one with Tatars reminded me: There is a town close to where I live. It's called Štramberk and it's famous for its local treat, Štramberské uši. It's actually pretty tasty once you get over the morbid legend of its origin And yep, "dependent" is a word. But it's used in association with "on", not "from" RE: All-history thread - Mácaman - 30.07.2015 Kinro> and do you know, that original cover name for tanks was "water carrier"? But the shortcut was "WC", so they decided to call it "tank" RE: All-history thread - Kinro - 30.07.2015 That's quite interesting thing to notice Like "what is your profession?" "I drive WC in British army" RE: All-history thread - Kinro - 07.11.2015 Daa... I suppose it is history now It was considered in Polish dubbing to translate pony names to Polish (what a crime to literature) Różowe Ciasteczko (Pink Pie), Drżypłoszka (I don't even know how to translate it... Fluttershy maybe) and Unikatka (guess) are the three confirmed "beta" names, I don't know if they would name Applejack Jabolka tho (apple-based moonshine or something like that) |