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Old 05-11-2003, 06:12 PM
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Default If a geezer can't call a bird a bird what can he call a bird?

Dwight Sipler wrote in
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Zemedelec wrote:

...Check the Czech play, "Ptakovina"...



Can you elaborate? Google provides 600 hits to that word, none of them
in english.


"Ptak" is either Polish or Russian for "bird". I don't know what "Chces
videt muj ptak?" is, I don't think there is a sound that transliterates
to 'j' from Cyrillic, but if I had to guess, it says "Do you want to see my
bird". "Ptakovina" is probably a diminutive or a woman's name.

-- ST