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Friday 3 June 05

Pozor!

Filed under: Language, Random pictures — sgazzetti @ 20.09 MDT+2.00

pozor!

High above Lake Bohinj, atop Mount Vogel. The background is pure cloud, which obscures the beautiful lake below and Mount Triglav, Slovenia’s highest peak (2,864 m) in the theoretical background to the north.

One of the first words of Slovene an arriving foreigner is likely to learn is pozor! (yes, the exclamation point is integral). Context, such as above, is usually the teacher. In this case, the caution/warning involves danger of falling (nevarnost padca). If you look very carefully at the stick figure, yep, he’s falling all right. In the genitive case, even.

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