S & P 44

[emperorpenguin]

Incidentally, my last name is Zupan ( Zupanic if you want to go old school)...

Is that Croatian?

[Hiromoon]

Slavic. My father's family hails from Slovinia and Germany....

[emperorpenguin]

Slavic. My father's family hails from Slovinia and Germany....

Croats are Slavs I wasn't far off, Slovenia is next door. My girlfriend is Slovak

[Hiromoon]

Don't tell them that. That region of Europe is fairly messed up! o.O

[Gibbs]

Don't tell them that. That region of Europe is fairly messed up! o.O

Ain't that the truth!

I'm half Serbian half croatian, sometimes I wake up in the morning and want to kill myself!

A line from an Australian movie, thought it was particularly appropriate. Hiroslavian sounds more too me like an updated version of Machiavellian.

[emperorpenguin]

Don't tell them that. That region of Europe is fairly messed up! o.O

The Croats and Slovenes are friends so that's ok I remember when Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia the Croats refused to let the Yugoslav army cross their territory to stop Slovenia breaking away. That took a lot of b****

[mthomason]

Wait... Hiroslavian?

Hehe

Much as I'd love to give you the credit, it was down to bodging around with some word roots and translations....

And a bonus point to anyone who can work out the origins of "Zapasnova"

[emperorpenguin]

And a bonus point to anyone who can work out the origins of "Zapasnova"

I think it means New War in Slovak and thus other Slavic languages

[Poko]

zapas-stock,reserve. Nova-well, obvious. so, something like "war for new stocks"(presumably oil or sthing)?

[emperorpenguin]

zapas-stock,reserve. :

Zapas is "fight" or "war" in my Slovak dictionary. I'm surprised the Polish word is so different! no idea what "stock" or "reserve" are in Slovak

[GJD]

Zapa also means secret work or intrigue in Spanish.

G.

[emperorpenguin]

so we have an "intriguing new stock war"

[Hiromoon]

Hehe

Much as I'd love to give you the credit, it was down to bodging around with some word roots and translations....

And a bonus point to anyone who can work out the origins of "Zapasnova"

Works for me. I just found it slightly odd, that's all.

[emperorpenguin]

on the subject of slavic words

did you know "Skoda" as in the car manufacturer, means "damage", "harm" or "injury"

talk about an off-putting name!

[Mr Evil]

on the subject of slavic words

did you know "Skoda" as in the car manufacturer, means "damage", "harm" or "injury"

talk about an off-putting name!

maybe they made tanks first ?

[BuShips]

on the subject of slavic words

did you know "Skoda" as in the car manufacturer, means "damage", "harm" or "injury"

talk about an off-putting name!

maybe they made tanks first ?

Nice theory, but no. They made bicycles.

According to Wiki,
In Czech, the word 'škoda' means "damage, detriment, disadvantage", and occurs in the stock phrase "to je škoda", which roughly means, "It's a pity". It has the same meaning in several Slavic languages such as Slovene, Croatian, Ukrainian and Polish, though in the latter it is spelled 'szkoda'.

[Mr Evil]

Several armaments firms in Czechoslovakia, prior to the occupation by Germany, were concerned with the design, development and production of tanks and other fighting vehicles -both for use by the Czech Army and for commercial sale to foreign armies. The two main tank models were the Skoda LT-35 and the CKD (Cesko-moravska Kolben Danek) TNHP, which the Germans took into service as the PzKpfw 35(t) and the PzKpfw38(t), respectively. The (t) was an abbreviation of tscheche, the German for Czech.

http://www.wargamer.com/Hosted/Panzer/czech.html

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/articles/skoda.htm

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Czec ... vakia.html

seems plausable they made tanks ?

[Poko]

the factory name's actually comes from the name of the main engineer and later owner, mr Emil Skoda

and if you want to talk about bad names, you just can't forget about Osram company(lightbulbs producer) and polish language

[BuShips]

Several armaments firms in Czechoslovakia, prior to the occupation by Germany, were concerned with the design, development and production of tanks and other fighting vehicles -both for use by the Czech Army and for commercial sale to foreign armies. The two main tank models were the Skoda LT-35 and the CKD (Cesko-moravska Kolben Danek) TNHP, which the Germans took into service as the PzKpfw 35(t) and the PzKpfw38(t), respectively. The (t) was an abbreviation of tscheche, the German for Czech.

http://www.wargamer.com/Hosted/Panzer/czech.html

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/articles/skoda.htm

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Czec ... vakia.html

seems plausable they made tanks ?

I was answering your statement of "maybe they made tanks first ?", so my answer was to that question of the Skoda name origination. Of course they made tanks in WW2 , but before they made tanks in the 1930's they made bicycles in the 1890's, from whence the name of Skoda originated. As a separate point, the German army scored a real bonus when they "captured" Czechoslovakia and acquired their tank production. Those units became part of the armor units that were then used in the Blitzkrieg.

[emperorpenguin]

According to Wiki,
In Czech, the word 'škoda' means "damage, detriment, disadvantage", and occurs in the stock phrase "to je škoda", which roughly means, "It's a pity". It has the same meaning in several Slavic languages such as Slovene, Croatian, Ukrainian and Polish, though in the latter it is spelled 'szkoda'.

They forgot Slovak