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**Aemilius Paulus** · 06-22-2009, 18:38

Originally Posted by Jebivjetar

Well, jebivjetar in Croatian language is a phrase which you use to describe a shallow person, person who acts like she knows much (but she doesn't know much at all), a person with unsure character etc.

You can translate "jebivjetar" literally as fu_k (jebati) plus wind (vjetar) and you have something like "the person who fu--s the wind"

Same in Russian. Jebati or Yebati is the f-word and veter is wind. Did you know that in 15th to 16th century the word "fuck" merely meant "to beat" such as in the sense "to beat in a competition"? Falcons were called wind-fuckers back then.

**Jebivjetar** · 06-22-2009, 18:50

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Same in Russian. Jebati or Yebati is the f-word and veter is wind. Did you know that in 15th to 16th century the word "fuck" merely meant "to beat" such as in the sense "to beat in a competition"? Falcons were called wind-fuckers back then.

O, sounds interesting!

But i ain't surprised by similarities since Russian and Croatian languages have much in common, and they belong in the same family AFAIK.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 06-22-2009, 18:55

Originally Posted by Jebivjetar

But i ain't surprised by similarities since Russian and Croatian languages have much in common, and they belong in the same family AFAIK.

Yeah, basically, I can understand any written Czech, Serbian, FYROM-ian, Bulgarian, etc. All of them are Slavic, whether in Cyrillic or in Latinitsa.

**Maion Maroneios** · 06-22-2009, 18:56

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

FYROM-ian

A balloon for not being uneducated and calling them by their name:

Maion

**Aemilius Paulus** · 06-22-2009, 19:06

Originally Posted by Maion Maroneios

A balloon for not being uneducated and calling them by their name:

Thanks Maion, I understand the hypocrisy of that name, but let us stray way from this. So far, I have seen 6 threads get locked because of FYROM. The locking of this thread would only bring joy to the Romaioi sobaki, or kynai

**Maion Maroneios** · 06-22-2009, 19:17

Indeed. I was just surprised, that's all. Especially from someone that lives as far away from Greece and the Balkans in general as well, since such people tend to just swallow everything Hollywood or History Channel feeds them.

Maion

**Moosemanmoo** · 06-22-2009, 19:27

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Thanks Maion, I understand the hypocrisy of that name, but let us stray way from this. So far, I have seen 6 threads get locked because of FYROM. The locking of this thread would only bring joy to the Romaioi sobaki, or kynai

Yeah I made one of them about 2 years ago, the FYROM wasn't even the topic
I thought it was great that it had so many replies but when I saw what they read