The grey series

[Slovak]

I just thought that I could post all images from the grey series that I have come across. If anyone has any that you don't see here, please do post.

 

[Slovak]

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[alf1]

some seen but many not
thanx for posting Slovak 🙂

 

[GuldenVleugel]

some seen but many not
thanx for posting Slovak 🙂

Do you also happen to know who has drawn them? Was it a person of a Slavic culture perhaps? Both you and Slovak seem to be familiarized with it.

For the series itself, great pics, even though drawn on dark paper. Probably ecologically made, on recycled paper. God bless the respect towards nature, many of us could learn from. LOL 😛

EDIT: Nope I was mistaken, it's Japanese. God bless those Asians then. LOL.

 

[alf1]

Nope I was mistaken, it's Japanese. God bless those Asians then. LOL.

Howdid you find it ??? 😉

 

[mkeemer]

Oh Man

WOW!!!!, Now you know I'm going to HAVE to color some of these 😀

 

[GuldenVleugel]

Howdid you find it ??? 😉

Even though my knowledge about Slavic languages is nought. I have noticed Japanese signs, and I can think one European must be really obsessed by Japanese for using Japanese signs, as well as one huge smartass. Wow. I even find it hard learning a fellow Indo-European language from another group as French.

EDIT: Not nought! I know the hardest sentence to pronounce happens to be a Polish one, allow me to quote it.

Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie. (I can't speak it out, LOL)

I also know that dobranoc is 'goodnight' in Polish. but that's all I know, due to remembering it. That sentence I have from Guiness World of Records of some years ago. It was the hardest sentence of any existent language to pronounce. 🙂

 

[alf1]

Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie.

Hey well the entire sentence is the following
"W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie" 😀
yah the sz - cz - rz variant is killing eh 😉
Anyway that sentence is used to see the spelling, of course it exists in many other countries too Belgium also i think.

 

[CheshireCatNY]

Niiiice!!! There were A LOT in there I didnt have. Here are some of my own collection....

 

[CheshireCatNY]

More..............(at least 4 of these were already posted, but they had been lightened. Here they are in all their grey glory....LOL)

 

[CheshireCatNY]

Still more.....(does that guy with the cat head remind you of anyone?? 😀 Maybe my japanese counterpart! LOL)

 

[CheshireCatNY]

Okay done...(that last one is a better quality version of one that was already posted)

 

[alf1]

yes sweet and evil in the same time : perfect 🙄
hey wait a minute : are those not teens ???????? 😉

 

[CheshireCatNY]

Okay so I lied...I found more. These color ones were posted by someone else not to long ago...

 

[nessonite1]

Okay but what does that sentence mean? That's nuts! I love when people here sometimes speak Polish to one another. It's the coolest looking language I've seen. 😛
Ah yes, and thank you for the picture contributions!

 

[alf1]

Okay but what does that sentence mean? That's nuts!

Nuts ??? what ?? moderator pliz.......😉
yes well Polish language from many people point of view is one of the hardest : grammar - writing - spelling..........it's not so scary you know. By the way that sentence is really hard to say and also spell ............. evil eh ???
I can't translate whole thing but Szczebrzeszyn is a town name ( yes).........oh after all globally i can tell :
So over there ( Szczebrzeszyn) a bee makes some noise in the bush 🙂
Means nothing translated but you should have the same kind of thing in US no nessonite ??

Yes that's off thread totally ( once again )

 

[Kougaiji-sama]

awsome pics. i always liked the gray collection. thank you
Ko

 

[GuldenVleugel]

Still off-thread:

What seems hard about Slavic languages is that they seem to differ a while lot from the more Western Indo-European languages. In linguistics the Slavic, Aryan and Indic languages are referred as santem-languages (Sanskrit for hundred: santem), while Romance, Germanic, Greek and Celtic languages are referred as kentum-languages (Latin for hundred: centum pronounced "kentoom").

It's the linguistic reference they use the distinguish two big groups withing the Indo-European families for Slavic language know more s-, sj-, z-sounds while we have more k-sounds in our usage. It makes it look hard though, because that would also have made the santem-languages to differ a whole lot from our kentum-languages.

One thing I do know, in Dutch the word for "border, frontier" is grens it's taken from the slavic languages. Have to consult an etymological dictionary at this one so I can send out from which Slavic language it had been taken.

About Russian. Russians also have taken Dutch words in their vocabulary, like "brandkraan" (fire valve, brand meaning fire, while Russians don't even know what 'brand' means LoL) and also like avtoboos (I'm an analphabethic when it comes at Cyrillic, but from people I know being fluent at Russian it's easy, almost as easy as learning to write Greek, which is easy 🙂) taken from the Dutch autobus. Then the Russian also have a third Dutch word I know of sjtool from the Dutch stoel (chair).

I know that one Russian Tsar named Peter I the Great of Russia wanted Russia to become as Western as possible and he also had a passion for shipbuilding which he had studied in Amsterdam (Dutch and Flemish being a sailor cultures). Along with his studies he took along Dutch words now still active in the Russian vocabulary.

 

[alf1]

Still off-thread

Mmh should be put in another thread though.
Moderator ?? are there some here 😉

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Well, Ness STARTED this one sort of....blame the bad mod. 😛 Doesn't seem to be doing terminal harm as of yet...


Gotta love the grey collection. So many new ones to HDS...so wonderful....

 

[GuldenVleugel]

Mmh should be put in another thread though.
Moderator ?? are there some here 😉

That was the last message going off-thread (... uhm temporarily that is 😛 after finding out from which Slavic languages the word 'grens' is derived), don't worry. Though it would be a bad idea to split off this message to another thread (of that's possible) with probably as title: "Slavic languages and their fellow Indo-European counterparts 😛"., or keep it at "Slavic languages".

 

[Alchiba]

WONDERFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Slovak, Cheshire cat! You are Greattttttt!!!!


Waaaaaa I'm happy! THANK YOU A LOT!!