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A flexi-record about the Postojna Cave from the 1970s.
Eric sent me this truly wonderful find: the Postojnska Jama - Diaphon Souvenir.
It’s an old guided recording through Slovenia’s famous Postojna Cave complete with eerie background music and an unintentionally humorous pronunciation of “stalagmites.”
You can download the mp3 and read more about it here.
(Thanks Eric!)
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I would say that the accent is a Serb one, not Slovene one. Hear, for example, how the narrator pronounces “Póstojna kejvs”.
What a great find! The clip reminds me of WPA (Works Progress Administration) documentary films from the 1930s or something made just after WWII in the US.
>something made just after WWII in the >US.
It reminds me of Dharma Initiative instructional video from Lost;-)
O.
>an unintentionally humorous pronunciation of “stalagmites
And equally humorous literal translation human fish (cloveska ribica), which is in fact Olm in english.
O.
Which reminds me of the song The human fish (Zgodba o nastanku človeške ribice) by fabulous (albeit sometimes gloomy, morose) Čompe
Didn’t find it on the net though
(from Wikipedia) The olm, or Proteus (Proteus anguinus)
It is also called the human fish or humanfish, because of its human-like skin (translated literally from Slovenian: Človeška ribica
Love this and think it would enliven any Postojna trip.
Thanks for bringing back a childhood memory of visiting Mammoth Cave (in my home state of Kentucky). At a pitch-dark spot, the tour guide turned off all the lights and played the bluegrass tune “The Ballad of Floyd Collins,” about a man who had perished trying to find a new entrance to the cave. Almost as creepy as those humanfish.
I wonder who composed the music? It’s amazing.