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Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Maribor, Slovenia.
Portoroz, Slovenia.
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A Fistful of Euros is looking for Europe’s best weblogs of 2004. In keeping with the spirit of the European Union, the entire process will be slightly complicated and hard to follow. From what I understand, though, they’re gathering nominations from the public before deciding themselves who wins.
Regardless, here’s what I would ask you, gentle reader, to do.
1) Listen to this short wav file.
2) Take time to meditate on its message.
3) Click on this link. This link.
4) Fill out the appropriate info.
5) In the space provided, write simply: "The Glory of Carniola." (Acceptable variations include: "carniola.org", "TGoC", "Carniola", "the one about Slovakia", etc…)
6) Close your browser and know that you have my heartfelt thanks.
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“In keeping with the spirit of the European Union, the entire process will be slightly complicated and hard to follow.”
That made me chuckle, but in fairness its rougly the same rules all the major blog awards use. Except Koufax, which has *three* stages, iirc.
Also, you’re already nominated to three other categories, and best new blog is probably not your best bet.
And the wav link redirects me to the yahoo front page. ?!
The Glory of Carniola would definitely have my vote if it were not for the unfortunate use of Slovene as a noun–it shouldn’t be employed at all.
so you won’t vote for carniola for…. grammatical reasons? no offense dude but get a life.
David: I think I’ve fixed all the links. I won’t comment on the irony of my original post being hard to follow and full of dead links.
|=|=|: Thanks for the support!
MK: Not for grammatical reasons, friend. Strategic reasons.
I guess I need to explain more, but…
some other time.
Wait, wasn’t it Sepultura? It’s all so confusing.
You don’t need any awards. Your blog is a piece of art. Full of secret meanings, metaphors, allusions. And witty and informative.
Reading for the “happy few”.
David
mike asked for some support. a few seconds of it. slovenia IMHO already has a really big problem with promotion and recognition in europe and around the world and this site does a great job of helping with this. the LEAST we can do is show some support.
MK: Yes, Mike’s blog is witty, informative, and…a piece of art.
But Slovenia does NOT have any problem with promotion. Ljubljana (and Slovenia) does not need any help advertising so it can be packed with tourists like Prague. This will happen on its own.
If you actually want to help reduce the confusion that comes with there already being so many similar terms resembling Slovenia you can start by shunning Slovene and use only the clearly more widely used and popular term Slovenian. Practically all native English-speaking Slovenians outside of Britain (although even there Slovenian is gaining popularity rapidly) use the term Slovenian exclusively and, I must say, seeing the use of the awful sounding Slovene is really annoying.
Everything else about this blog, I honestly like very much. It’s (mostly) a joy to read.
|=|=|: Perhaps the word Slovene sounds annoying/awkward since it’s somewhat similar to the word sloven which is used to describe something dirty, untidy. I always use the term Slovenian. It suits me more. There is nothing wrong with the word Slovene, but it might bring up some nasty associations. At the end it’s really irrelevant which term is used. They both mean the same.
Mike, you’ve got my voice. I hope your blog wins since it’s the best I’ve ever seen - from every point of view. And care not much what other people think about the use of words.
Katsumi: Interestingly enough, in some search engines (e.g. www.wn.com — searches online newspapers from around the world) if you search for Slovene many of the hits returned contain instead slovenly.
But it’s more than just that. As previously mentioned, the majority of native English-speaking Slovenians have always been using simply Slovenian. In Britain, they used to use almost exclusively Slovene (for both noun and adjective), but this is rapidly changing. Today, you see both used by the international media interchanageably in the same article every day and this is just plain wrong.
Further, extremely few nations in the world have a term in English for the noun that differs from the adjective. There is no need for the Slovene term–again, a term disdained by most native English-speaking Slovenians. Slovenian language, Slovenians, Slovenian native, Slovenian citizen… there is no ambiguity.
I am now convinced that |=|=| is a Chinese character meaning “annoying pedantic troll”.
Ljubljana has enough promotion. Maribor needs more of it.
crni: Did I throw you (or anyone) an insulting name or state my interpretation of their feelings/views as idiotic? No.
Trolls do that. Indeed. Thanks for coming out!
It looks like TGoC has 20 nomintations so far, which is wonderful. Thanks to everyone who went over and voted. I appreciate it!
This whole debate about the use of the word Slovene instead of Slovenian is interesting. I also prefer to use the term Slovenian because I like it and as already mentioned, it is less ambiguous. Now that has to be a good thing for Slovenia’s promotion.
Anyway, I generally find this site interesting and informative except for articles relating to the balkans which I find not relevant to Slovenia. (constructive criticism)
Mike my friend, you have my support.
Katsumi said, “And care not much what other people think about the use of words”.
What a stupid comment!
If we didn’t care about what other people thought about the use words we would still be walking around calling negroes in America “niggers” or “boy”.
Is that the type of society we want?
Andrej: Couldn’t you be a bit more diplomatic and..nice? Katsumi (unlike crni) has:
A. shown absolutely zero malice to anyoneB. even stated she prefers Slovenian to Slovene
If you feel differently, please just state so w/o getting insulting. Noboday cares to be told how to feel, what to think, or what to do.
crni: If you look carefully you’ll notice all I present is information (i.e. facts or bits about how I feel about an issue) and offer suggestions (e.g. how we can help reduce confusion about Slovenia). I didn’t tell Michael what he must think or do. You, on the other hand, in true troll manner, love to tell people what to think and do…and worse, fire personal insults at those holding a view differing from yours.
Dear |=|=|,
I am sorry to hear that my opinion of your contributions here does not please you. Mind you, I have never used the word idiotic, you have done so yourself. Quite to the point, I might add.
I find a lot of your contributions here annoying and pedantic and have simply stated so. Just as you have presented your pedantic arguments about the use of “Slovene” and “Slovenian”. To me, looking at such petty details on this wonderful website, is pedantic and annoying.
Good luck on your personal crusade of veiling Slovenia in shrouds of mystery, a vertable modern Timbouktu. Those damn annoying tourists…
If you wish to discuss this any further, feel free to send me an email at the address that I always dilligently provide - unlike you.
Yours sincerely,
crni!
crni: I don’t care what your opinion is of me. And I don’t hate you either. I’m sure you are just what I would be like - had I also merely half a brain. I don’t expect you to comprehend everything I say. And I don’t care to engage you in baby-talk through e-mail in the hope that you might.
What I objected to in the previous post are your bad manners and unprovoked personal insults. Nevermind the fact I find your posts irritating, in poor taste, and a waste of space. If there existed an ignore (abusive) user feature on this site, you’d be the first person added.
I’m going to quickly weigh in on a few things here.
First, I’ve noticed that whenever a nasty argument breaks out in the comment sections, |=|=| is almost always involved and usually plays a starring role. His enthusiasm for minutia (like Slovene/Slovenian) seems to get the better of him on a regular basis. (And, yes, for the record, I find the whole issue to be a total non-issue. “German” sounds like “germ,” “Hungary” sounds like “hungry,” “Turkey” sounds like “turkey,” and maybe “Slovene” sounds like “slovenly.” In the big scheme of things, it’s absolutely trivial.)
Second, I &hearts crni, even if people regularly take his jokes at face value.
Third, civil discussions really tickle my cherries, and that means I hate seeing junk like “what a stupid comment” in the comments. (Especially when, as |=|=| correctly noted, there was no malice involved. The last thing I want is for interesting people like katsumi to feel unwelcome at this site.)
As a matter of fact, I just got an e-mail today from someone saying that they thought Slovenia was a quiet and friendly place but that, judging by the comments here, there seemed to be a lot of “issues and hate.” (I’m also reminded of Ann Arbor’s recent dramatic departure for similar reasons.) While I think that being online requires having a moderately tough skin, that pisses me off. Primarily because I know that Slovenes are generally kind and laid-back, and not the kind of people who flip out over any little thing.
In short, I’d like to see more civility from now on. And no more jumping all over foreigners just because they make an honest mistake about Slovenia in the comments. I’m tired of that too. Don’t make me use the banhammer.
Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that’s the way I feel.