Posted by The mad Rusyn on October 20, 1999 at 16:13:38:
In Reply to: Re: Slovaks posted by Vasko on October 15, 1999 at 00:04:48:
I really hate to burst your bubble, but that web site that you refer to, that song Za Lisom, Za Lisom, is in no way Slovak.
There is no dialect of Slovak that uses the reflexive sja. In Slovak it is sa and in Saris dialect it is se (makcen over the s).
Next when a verb is in its infinitive form, there is not a Slovak dialect that uses "i" at the end. Let us use the verb tancovat.
In standard Slovak it is tancovat'
In Saris Slovak it is tancovac
In Rusyn it is tancovati (this is the word used in the song).
It is clear that this song is not in any dialect of Slovak, but in Rusyn. The "enemy" on the Slovak World list server was correct. Be what you want, but know who you are. With this in mind and seeing that the song Za lisom, za lisom is in Rusyn, how can you say that you are rightly Slovak? Plus, the web site that you are on is the Eastern Slovakia Slovak and Carpatho Rusyn Geneological Research Page. Clearly they identify a separation between them, why can't you?
How is it really in Slovakia? I have studied there extensively over the past 8 years, I'd like to know. When you go to Presov, there is a definite Saris identity, but there is also a separate diverse Rusyn identity also. Please teach me how it really is in Slovakia.
Last thing, I am also a young person and I am very secure in my RUSYN identity and am willing and able to defend it against people like you. Rusyns are real. Rusyns are diverse. Rusyns are different. Live with it, because this is "the real world"....
: I posted here because my friend (a Rusnak Slovak like me) saw it and thought it was funny. He knew how I posted messages to Slovak-World listserv when enemies of Slovakia started to "correct" those who rightly said we are Slovaks, trying to say we are "Rusini." So I told him how it really is in Slovakia. So even though I live in USA now I still care about things happening at home. Especially when scholars call us something that the people never considered themselves.
: Some of our people now say they are Ruthenians (Rusini) but mostly they are very old or are former Communists who now do not want to be associated with Slovak "Ukrainian" traitor Bil~a'k. Most educated younger people like me are secure in our Slovak identity and stand up for that when people here in USA say we are Ruthenians. That may be OK for village folklore (as a slang word) but we live in the real world...
: Do videnia!