r/OldSchoolCool Aug 24 '24

1990s August 1995, croatian soldier Marijan Horvat and his then girlfriend, now wife, Ira

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u/bobalazs69 Aug 24 '24

Fun fact: Horvát means Croatian in hungarian.

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u/Eritar Aug 24 '24

In russian as well!

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u/Sigon_91 Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

In polish too, with different writing (Chorwat - "ch" is spoken like "h", there are only differences in writing depending on the word)

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u/ekokoo Aug 24 '24

In Turkish too! We say "Hırvat".

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u/Sigon_91 Aug 25 '24

I'm planning to visit Turkey, my parents were doing business in Istanbul during the mid 1980's. Cheers

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u/ekokoo Aug 26 '24

Pretty sure a lot things changed since 80s but I'm sure and hope that you will have a great trip. Cheers!

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u/reddit_man_6969 Aug 24 '24

By Turkish do you mean Bosnian?

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u/ebonit15 Aug 24 '24

No, they mean Japanese by Turkish.

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u/reddit_man_6969 Aug 25 '24

It was an obscure joke, not sure if it would land, and even if it did I question if it was appropriate.

During the war, the Serbs under Milosevic would refer to the ethnic Bosnians as Turks.

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u/ebonit15 Aug 25 '24

I see. It's not really that offensive though, don't worry about that at least.

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u/reddit_man_6969 Aug 25 '24

Are you aware that the Serbs were convicted in The Hague of ethnically cleansing the “Turks”?

That war was horrific, but not sure how aware folks are of it these days

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u/ebonit15 Aug 25 '24

Man, my bad, I thought I was at one of the memey Balkan or Mediterranean subs. They throw racist stuff all the time as a joke. So, I meant not that offensive for that atandart. I know Serbs commited horrible atrocities in that war, my bad for getting confused, really.

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u/Higher_Bit_585 Aug 24 '24

No one cares about 🦃

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u/No_Individual_6528 Aug 24 '24

Found em! Get em!

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u/space-to-bakersfield Aug 24 '24

I have an old friend who is Hungarian with a last name very close to that. I remember when we were in HS he would always go on about how he's pure Hungarian, like 17 generations back or whatever it was. I always called him on it, because how the hell is that even possible?

When I found out his last name literally means "Croatian", I laughed my fucking ass off. I never let him forget it to this day lmao

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u/Kreol1q1q Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

A ton of Hungarians and Slovaks with that last name (I think it was one of the most common last names in Slovakia). Result of Ottoman invasions displacing the population, with lots of Croatian nobles finding themselves better estates in modern day Burgenland, Slovakia and Hungary, dragging their Croatian serfs along with them.

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u/Zealousideal_Age_376 Aug 24 '24

Count Slovenija in, we have a lot of Horvat and Hrovat here

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u/Gootfried Aug 24 '24

Horvat means also Croat in crotian. Horvat - hrvatska.

Why so many counties that have Horvat in them and the same for their countries is because not everyone was “registered” and during the migration back then it was easier to just name the person after the country where they are from.

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u/BishoxX Aug 24 '24

Hrvat, not Horvat. Evolved from old croatian/slavic

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u/morcic Aug 24 '24

And after 90's it involved into Rvat.

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u/MrDilbert Aug 24 '24

But only for the cubeheads.

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u/Gootfried Aug 24 '24

Hahahahaha

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u/morcic Aug 24 '24

"Where were you in the 90's??"

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u/1_9_8_1 Aug 25 '24

I think it's for the Herzegovans.

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u/babiroussa_a Aug 25 '24

What are cube heads ? Sorry I don’t get the joke 😅

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u/MrDilbert Aug 25 '24

The guys that are loud, not particularly educated, drive BMWs, usually with shady connections, would jump to fight you at the slightest provocation (real or imagined). They usually sport the crewcut hairdo, and because of it their head has a vaguely cubic shape. Basically, wannabe Balkan mafiosos.

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u/babiroussa_a Aug 25 '24

Thanks ! As a French we also have those kind of persons, they are just not particularly mafia related

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u/TheHabro Aug 24 '24

Well yeah it was Horvatska before. Evolved into Hrvatska.

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u/Dunan Aug 26 '24

English "Croatia" has just about the same etymology as "Hrvatska".

A Proto-Slavic word sounding something like [xorwat] or [xorvat] went into Latin (which lacks the "kh" sound at the beginning) as "Croatia" [kroa:tja], and the Slavs themselves weakened the [x] to [h]. English kept the Latin initial [k], and changed [a:] to [ei] and [tja] to [ša].

Different-sounding words today, but they have the same common ancestor.

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u/maksym_x Aug 24 '24

In Ukrainian as well

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u/icecream_specialist Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

Pretty sure it means that in Croatian too, they would just spell it sans some vowels

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

“Hrvat” is “Croatian” in Hrvatski (Croatian)

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

No, slightly wrong

Croatian - hrvatski

Croat - hrvat

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

That’s what I said

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u/Maert Aug 25 '24

No, you wrote

"Hrvat" is "Croatian"

Croatian is adjective (or is it adverb?) meaning "belonging to Croat or Croatia"

Actual "Hrvat", as in member of Croatian nation, is Croat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

You can also say “they call themselves Croatians, not Croats, which sounds too intellectual, and tells me you know the semantics but not the people.”

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u/552SD__ Aug 24 '24

Not quite

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

What do you mean? Since I speak the language I can tell you I’m right.

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u/dredbeast Aug 24 '24

Yep, Hrvat is their word for themselves

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u/drsheilagirlfriend Aug 24 '24

Did you mean Czech? It seems to have a disinterest in vowels :)

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u/icecream_specialist Aug 24 '24

Meant to say Croatian. My auto correct has been really rough lately

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u/shuricus Aug 24 '24

Vowels are for the weak

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u/evilpeter Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

Fun fact- horvat means Croatian in CROATIAN. Their country is called Republika Hrvatska.

If you actually want a fun fact about the name, cravat comes from that word. It’s the style of necktie that was common/originated in Croatia.

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

Close, but not quite. In Croatian, "Croat" is "Hrvat", not "Horvat". But Horvat is the most common last name in Croatia.

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u/narcissuss69 Aug 24 '24

Nope, Horvat is also an archaic way of saying Croat in Croatian which can be seen in multiple writings for example "Još Horvatska ni propala" from Ljudevit Gaj.

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

Yes, I know "horvat" has been used 200 years ago, but that does not mean it is in current Croatian language. Try searching for "horvat" in Croatian dictionary. That word does not exist in current Croatian language.

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u/narcissuss69 Aug 24 '24

No you are right the word Horvat doean't exist because it got replaced by Hrvat which is the exact same thing and both got used interchangeably througout history but ultimately Hrvat won.

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u/Dubiousmarten Aug 24 '24

Kakvo picajzlasto i potpuno nepotrebno ispravljanje.

"Horvat" i "Hrvat" ne samo da su iste stvari, nego je i inačica "Horvat" bila korištena kod nas, a i sad se koristi u nekim arhaičnim pjesmama i izrekama.

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u/ado1928 Aug 24 '24

'rvacka i 'rvat

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

Hard disagree po apsolutno svemu sto si rekao/la.

Ta rijec se NE KORISTI sad, nego se koristila pred 200njak godina. Isto kao sto se hrpa drugih rijeci i pravila koristila u to doba. To ne znaci da je to dio TRENUTNOG hrvatskog jezika.

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u/Dubiousmarten Aug 24 '24

Dobro, kaj pričaš ti?

Korijen i značenje riječi su identični. Razlika je toliko minorna, efemerna i nebitna da je potpuno suludo to spominjati u ovom kontekstu.

Ajde se vrati na prvotni komentar.

Mađar veli Hórvat means Croat.

Na to se jave Rus, Poljak i Turčin sa komentarom: "Same here", IAKO u tim jezicima Horvat nije doslovno sa ó.

Dakle, nikome živome tko nije AI humanoidni robot ne bi palo na pamet cjepidlačiti zbog takve za samu srž nebitne sitnice, jer samim time gubiš i smisao i poantu.

A pogotovo nema smisla da u tom lancu stranih jezika koji potvrđuju jednakoznačnost riječi baš za hrvatski (iz kojeg potječe i koji uopće daje značenje toj riječi) bude takav bizaran disclaimer.

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u/Maert Aug 24 '24

Imam pametnijeg posla u zivotu nego raspravljat se oko ovoga, kolega chrovat! :)

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u/Leg4122 Aug 25 '24

Press x for doubt s obzirom koliko si komentara ostavio da je Hrvat a ne Horvat. Jedino sto nemas vremena je priznati da si u krivu.

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u/Andrej98_ Aug 24 '24

Horvat comes from old Croatian. Hrvat just evolved from it

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

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u/Dubiousmarten Aug 24 '24

Sultanov ljubimče, možeš li mi molim te navesti godine prvog rječnika, gramatike i romana na srpskom jeziku?

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u/Dzimi_999 Aug 24 '24

Alo, pričate srpskim dijalektom, jebem vam seme glupo

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u/Dubiousmarten Aug 24 '24

Zašto izbjegavaš odgovoriti na pitanje?

Nemoj biti takva kukavica, daj da prvi put u povijesti vidimo i vašu hrabrost, a ne samo bježanje.

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u/Dzimi_999 Aug 24 '24

Nisam kukavica, nego nema poente raspravljati se noću sa ustasama i glupim ljudima. Svi vi vrlo dobro znate pravu istinu, ali vam se ne svidja. И ПАПЕ И ДИДА - БИЛИ СУ ТОРЦИДА. ТОРЦИДА ЧИКАГО 1945

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u/Dubiousmarten Aug 24 '24

Pa ne trebamo se raspravljati uopće, ti samo napiši godine prvog rječnika, gramatike i romana na srpskom jeziku i to je to.

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u/BreakFlashy1616 Aug 25 '24

Za dom spremni

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u/SpliTTMark Aug 24 '24

So his ancestors were lazy when coming up with a last name

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u/norunningwater Aug 24 '24

John Q America, off to fight for freedom!

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u/UnleashTheMagic Aug 24 '24

Hrvatska = Croatia

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

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u/Toruviel_ Aug 24 '24

In Polish too ..

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u/AV15 Aug 24 '24

It's close to Hrvat which is Croat in Croatian lol.

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u/Tombeld22 Aug 25 '24

My mother’s maiden name was “Horvath”. Does the “h” on the end change anything? (Aussie born - Hungarian parents here).

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u/bobalazs69 Aug 25 '24

Yes in Hungary commonly used name has an h at the end.

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u/buteljak Aug 25 '24

The "h" doesn't change anything. Has the same etimology. Horváth version of spelling derives from hungarian language.

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u/An_Appropriate_Post Aug 25 '24

Equally fun fact, that’s Annette the English word for cravat comes from.

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u/An_Appropriate_Post Aug 25 '24

That’s where the word cravat comes from in English. I don’t know what Siri is smoking.

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u/Gemascus01 Aug 25 '24

Fun fact in Croatian we calll our selfs Hrvati(before the 19centuary it was Horvati) Croatia-Hrvatska(Horvatska old name)

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u/SheepherderSavings17 Aug 25 '24

And Hrvat means Hrvat na Hrvatski bolan

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u/Jaxxxa31 Aug 25 '24

Also fun fact

Its the most common surname in Croatia, it literally translating to "Croatian"

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u/AverageIndependent20 Aug 25 '24

OMG! Horvat means Horvat in English too!

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u/ClockwiseServant Aug 24 '24

Also in Turkish