Skipper Posted April 11, 2001 Share Posted April 11, 2001 {double post} [ 04-11-2001: Message edited by: Skipper ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 11, 2001 Share Posted April 11, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Skipper: > I remember an awful lot of accounts of senior Soviet generals personally leading their troops in assault... most of these in the breakthroughs from cauldrons of summer 1941.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Can you give us a quote or two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipper Posted April 11, 2001 Share Posted April 11, 2001 Probably yes. Will try to look it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hofbauer Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 hey, almost forgot this thread! Mike wrote: Poor Germans! The bohunk (look THAT up in Der Funk and Wagnall's!) from Canada keeps telling you about your language! That is self-contradictory in the original sense of "bohunk": Since a bohunk is a Bohemian-Hungarian he cannot by definition be from Canada. Unless you use "bohunk" in a proverbial/metaphorical way, which according to my Könemann-Merriam-Webster would mean you are a rough-looking, illiterate lower class unskilled labourer...??? Bohunk is not a german word. We have much funnier words. Like, Straßenverkehrsordnungsverwaltungsverfahrensvorschrift. Or something. yours sincerely, M.Hofbauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 I am using bohunk in a most decidely colloquial and Canadian way, the origins and usage of which are just as mystifying to you as they are to me! In slang, the term has been adapted to refer also to persons of Ukrainian origins, of which I am one. I expect neither Webster nor Oxford to have a solid grasp on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hofbauer Posted April 13, 2001 Share Posted April 13, 2001 oh, so that's where you got your cool surname from. Imagine it would be even cooler if you wrote it in cyrillic - ever tried that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted April 13, 2001 Share Posted April 13, 2001 Anything you can teach me will be gratefull accepted. "Cool"? You know, I email other Doroshes at random when I come across them on the internet to ask if the word actually means anything, no one ever answers. I saw a "Dorosh Rug" on ebay once (that commanded a hefty sum, incidentally), but it gave no clue that it was a word, or a name, or what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hofbauer Posted April 13, 2001 Share Posted April 13, 2001 I'll see if I can help in some way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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