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From: "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz>
Subject: Re: Hungarian / Czecho-Slovakian
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 11:27:02 GMT
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cagalj@mailer.uni-marburg.de (Tomislav K. Cagalj) wrote:
>
> In article <3gt3c7$2pm@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi> writes:
> >Czech and Slovak, two languages or two dialects? Officially ofcourse
> >they are two languages.
> 
> >- When there was a common Czechoslovakia, thay had in TV very often'
> >mixed Czech and Slovak programs. People didn't seem to have
> >difficulties to understand them both. But it didn't anyway seem to
> >change their language in spite of the fact that Czechs and Slovaks
> >never had such a fanatic will to keep their languages separated
> >as Serbs and Croats.

> nope, only to be recognized as separate ones (as you actually did). but 
> fanatic they are sometimes, indeed :))))

Just browse through the slovak-l. Now and then you may find
an article written by a Slovak who has lived or studied
in Bohemia using a Czech word but immediatelly apologizing
for a 'Bohemism'. :-)
Even though C. and S. more-or-less understand each
other's spoken language a single foreign word in the text
stands out like a sore thumb.

Czechs and Slovaks *are* quite fanatic about their respective
languages. That's good.  So far they seem to be also quite
fanatic about *not* shooting each other. That's even better.

Paul JK

