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The following malapropisms and gobbledygook are reputed to have come from Slovenia’s greatest football player, Sebastjan CimerotiÄ?:
Za svoje uspehe bi se rad svojim starÅ¡em. Å e posebej oÄ?etu in mami.
I need to thank my parents for my success. Especially my mom and dad.
Zelo sem samokritiÄ?en. Predvsem do sebe.
I’m very self-critical. Especially with myself.
Praznoval sem v postelji, s svojo mamo…
I celebrated in bed, with my mom…
To ni bilo samo verbalno. To sem mu tudi povedal!
This wasn’t just said verbally. I also told him!
Jaz, ZahoviÄ? in AÄ?imoviÄ? smo najboljÅ¡i duo.
Me, ZahoviÄ? and AÄ?imoviÄ? are the best duo.
Boli me koleno na nogi.
I have pain in the knees on my legs.
Sem zelo zadovoljen, da sem odigral 90 minut. Pred tekmo sem bil namreÄ? dokaj živÄ?en, saj sem pred tednom dni imel potres možganov.
I’m very satisfied that I played for 90 minutes. Before the game I was pretty nervous, because a week ago I had a brain earthquake. (read: "concussion")
Kupil sem trosobno garsonijero.
I bought a three-room one-room apartment.
(Thanks Miran!)
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Wow! But why am I not really surprised…we all know the
myth of football/soccer players and intelligence! But he is definitely worthy
of his own "bushisms" webpage!
Quite frankly, if I made as much money as a European footballer I wouldn’t even bother talking, period. Why? I’d communicate all my desires by pointing and grunting. Let my low-life underlings figure out what I want. Presidents on the other hand…
Some of these could just be aquired to lack of appropriate vocabulary.
Others can be attributed to some kind of drug. The rest show that this
man is quite confused.
You would not believe how many similar gems you hear just by walking down the street. Or even worse, visiting a lecture where either students or professors are trying to look extra-posh by using "fancy" words. I remember a principle of an elementary school which wanted stuff to be done "step po step" (step by step) or which wanted the "moratoring" to be done by tuesday (monitoring) and which "existed" on the fact that he would go (insisted). I agree, "koleno na nogi" is a winner, but I would just like to point out that footballers are not the only assholes around here;) Lots of neat stuff can be found here
Well… also David Beckham is not renowned as the cleverest footballer that ever walked the earth.. here is one of the jokes… The Pope, Nelson Mandela, David Beckam
and a little girl were on an aeroplane when it started to crash. The
pilots jumped off and they were the only people left on. There were only
three parachutes left. The Pope said to Nelson Mandela ‘you have done
alot of good in your life, freeing people from captivity, so you
deserve to go’. He agreed, and jumped off. Then the Pope said to David
Beckam ‘you are a great footballer and an idol, so you deserve to go’.
He also agreed, and jumped off. Then the Pope turned to the little girl
and said ‘i have lived my life, but you havent had a chance, so you
deserve to go now’. The little girl then turned around to the Pope and
said ‘but we can both go’. The Pope looked a little confused. The girl
continued to say ‘there are two parachutes left. David Beckam took my
lunchbox’.
Garsonjera is not one room apartment. Garsonjera is something that would be reffered as studio. At least that is how people in Ca reffered to an apartment that was basically a square place. You actually sleep in your kitchen or cook in your bedroom. There are no rooms. ;)
BigWhale: Thanks for that. I had a lot of trouble with that one. I initially wanted to put "loft" or "studio" but wasn’t sure the inherent nonsense would shine through that way. You’re right, though.
That’s CimIrotić, not CimErotić…otherwise everything old stuff. It was even in Delo…
So basically a garsoniera is a perfect student apartment, ideal for drinking, doing reefer and have full banging mobility?
bluz: It’s so regularly misspelled by everyone that I have no chance of keeping it straight. For the record, I’ve had this problem before. As for it being old news, I generally don’t worry too much about being cutting-edge, since half of the visitors here are from outside Slovenia, and probably don’t speak Slovene, much less keep up with newspapers.
This guy is most likely one of GW Bush’s children…
The British satirical magazine has a section called Colemanballs devoted to gems like these, traditionally from footballers and commentators but encompassing any other examples of broadcast stupidity.
Ahem… At least one of these statetements is definitely not by Cime: The one about "telling him verbally". It was in fact said by some German footballer, who (like Cime) has an IQ of a broken toaster. However, Cime does has produced another anthological statemenet: When Slovene coach Branko Oblak celebrated his 50th birthday, every team member wished him a happy birthday (vse najboljse), only Cime wished him a happy new year (srecnega pa zdravega).
Oops, a slight error in temporal clauses above. Please read "Cime has produced" without "does"
I love this one! Laughed myself to death!Cime for President!
BTW, I’m almost sure it’s CimErotić
Poor Cime. And here I was thinking he was somekind of an intelectual (No really!)Regarding garsonjera: Here’s what SSKJ has to say about it: "Stanovanje iz ene sobe in pritiklin, navadno za samske osebe."
He’s been playing football without a helmet too long!
actually football in europe refers to soccer : no helmet required :)
"actually football in europe refers to soccer : no helmet required"As we have seen in this post, it might be a good idea for soccer players to wear one, too.