ORIGINAL: Schanilec
ORIGINAL: Symon
Hey, Schanilec, or somebody,
A new detail place opened up just down the road and it's run by a Czech, Michal Malos. He doesn't speak English very well, but communicates nicely. I was looking to just make the Jeep righteous, but he showed me what he was doing to a Lexus and I was impressed. The price he quoted was astonishingly reasonable. He is in the wilderness of rural Alabama and has taken on a few of our cultural eccentricities; he keeps calling me Mister John. So I want to show him the same respect. How would one address him? "friend", "brother", "mister", in Czech? I want to show him I'm a grateful customer who will make the effort, just as he does. Suggestions? JWE
Just a good greeting will do fine. These are not the correct spellings but try this.
Yuksomosh: basically hello, how are you.
The reply.
Dobrae: basically I'm fine.
Find out where is from in Czechoslovakia. And go from there.
I'm third generation and that is about all I remember now a days. My aunts know Bohemian but don't use it much and forgotten most of the language. Really haven't heard it much since I was a kid and also have forgotten most of what I knew. Dad and my grandparents are gone now, they used to converse quite a bit. There some north of here that still speak it quite well.
Not to hijack..but is that what Borat is saying all of the time when he greets someone? To me, it sounds like he has been saying "yazhamesh"? is that it, but actually spelled the way you spelled it?
Thanks.
