Turkish Soap Operas Take Balkans by Storm

[Petros]

well, i share part of the Petros respond / answer

it is not the curiosity or some special connection(s).

the people in the same countries were/are "crazy" about lots of Spanish, South American and USA soaps.

Simply, in this period, the Turkish and the Indian soaps are in trend .

Also, i have to mention one other thing

I guess many of you are not aware what kind of influence have pictures and sound on our brain.
(Try watching horror movie without sound.)

No "conspiracy theories", i talk about serious sciences, financed with BILLIONS (dolars, euros, whatever...)

Part of the branches are called Marketing, Public Relations and etc.

You (most of you who watch some dubious soaps) would change the program, if you had any idea what all is possible to do with pictures and sound, or even more with moving pictures and sound systems capable to produce wide range of frequencies

Zdravo Serdarot, srkna nova godina i sreken bozik. Interesting, although I do know a few things about sound frequency modulation synthesis I have no idea about visual one. If you do please be more specific.
Still, images whether moving or static have always been able to influence the human brain in various ways. And yes the marketing and PR departments use huge amounts of money towards that respect.
Personally I don't have the time nor the will to watch soaps.

[Ottoman]

In Turkey watching love soapseries is a women thing to do, believe me if you watch a love Turkish serial movie in Turkey you wont me accepted as a "man".

[Risto the Great]

What a funny thread.

@ Petros, I think you will hear "s'ti" more often than "site" in Lerin.

@ TV soaps .... my favourite is "Breaking Bad" ... not sure it is a soap but I really enjoy it. A guilty pleasure is True Blood ... a little embarrassing to admit but it is fun.

@ Phoenix ... we should talk sausages one day.

[Petros]

What a funny thread.

@ Petros, I think you will hear "s'ti" more often than "site" in Lerin.

Never been, I'd like to go, summer preferably to go to any panagyr.

Btw I happen to have a book which I got as a gift in Macedonia. Its called Незапретани сеќавања, Издава4* Мѕзеј на Македонија,
(Memories not Lost, editor Museum of Macedonia).It's printed in Skopje 2009, and from it says here in only 1000 copies. It has a lot of photographic material and it is in Macedonian as well as English. Am I allowed to scan and post some or all of the book and if yes under which section?

* I can't seem to find letter -tse, that which looks like number 4 on my keyboard, you happen to know where it is?

[Risto the Great]

Petros, you are welcome to post from the book.
But please start a new thread.

How did you meet your girlfriend from Macedonia?

[Petros]

Petros, you are welcome to post from the book.
But please start a new thread.

How did you meet your girlfriend from Macedonia?

Thanks, should I put it in Macedonian history category?

We met in UK, same university, different courses. I met her through some Greeks that were living in the same flat.

[Phoenix]

@ Phoenix ... we should talk sausages one day.

RtG, you should start a new thread...btw did you ever see that movie with Ron Jeremy wearing nothing more than a butchers apron...the title escapes me for the moment...

[Bill77]

How do define "pretty good"?

I can translate this as "all in lerin (they) know to speak Macedonian". Do I fall in the pretty good category for you? Because for me I allocate me into beginners, level 2. I would like to know a lot more about grammar and syntax etc; even my voc is just a few phrases and words.

I sincerely mean it, You speak Macedonian very well so is your English. Well done. I got to admit, i am a little envies.

I don't know about this. The Macedonians I know are from Lerin and Voden and they say "SITE".

Thats fine mate, i was just curious because a family i know, say "SETI" instead of "SITE". as you can see the only diference is the letter "I" and the sound it makes is swapped around with the letter "E" at the end of the word.

But i must add, thank god those bloody Bulgars had no influence in any of the Lerin/Voden/Solun regions (like they did in your Grandparents village) otherwise they would have been saying "Vsichki" (in Bulgarian, also meaning everyone)

cheers mate.

[Risto the Great]

Ummm, Billche .... I say "sitchko". It may well be a an exarchate remnant, but it is common in Lerin.

[Bill77]

Ummm, Billche .... I say "sitchko". It may well be a an exarchate remnant, but it is common in Lerin.

Realy?
I have never heard it. Well according to Petros (which i agree with him), the Macedonians he knows from Lerin and Voden all say "SITE". I know the Macedonians in Bitola all say "SITE".

Chris, how would you say "Feet" (noga) ? please don't tell me "Krakata"

I am just wandering during wars what our commanders would have said to his soldiers when instructing them "Everyone on your Feet"

Macedonia= "site na noga"
Bulgarian= "Vsichki v krakata ci"

I would bet todays Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia or anywhere in the world, would understand the Macedonian version and not the Bulgarian.

[Rogi]

In Lerin, I would often here 'celi' for 'all', perhaps even more so than 'site'.

[makedonche]

In Kotori we would say:-
"Donesi suti muslinkite tooka" - bring all the olives here. I hadn't heard "site" until I spoke to Macedonians from the republic.

[Serdarot]

What a funny thread.

@ Petros, I think you will hear "s'ti" more often than "site" in Lerin.

@ TV soaps .... my favourite is "Breaking Bad" ... not sure it is a soap but I really enjoy it...

Breaking Bad is no Soap i find it cool too, between the best serias made ever, but i guess "allo allo" stays my favourite seria.

@ language:

сш`то / с`шти
ште
(в)сички

and many other "bulgar" words are before all MACEDONIAN

if you say to some Mariovci that "sichki" and "shto" is bulgar, you might need to visit hospital

[Petros]

Petros, you are welcome to post from the book.
But please start a new thread.

I did a few scans and tried to upload them but without success because I could not set the required resizing. I tried with MicOffice PicManager. Could you or someone please offer me some guidance?
Or I could send them to the admin email I received and you guys post them, whatever is faster.

[Petros]

I sincerely mean it, You speak Macedonian very well so is your English. Well done. I got to admit, i am a little envies.


Thats fine mate, i was just curious because a family i know, say "SETI" instead of "SITE". as you can see the only diference is the letter "I" and the sound it makes is swapped around with the letter "E" at the end of the word.

But i must add, thank god those bloody Bulgars had no influence in any of the Lerin/Voden/Solun regions (like they did in your Grandparents village) otherwise they would have been saying "Vsichki" (in Bulgarian, also meaning everyone)

cheers mate.

I thought that some of you might be a bit envious because I go often in Macedonia whereas I think most of you are in Australia and North America and is thus far to visit so often . But about how I speak Makedonski jazik I never thought I would hear from a Macedonian.

Well they didn't have much influence in Pentapoli/Sarmusakli either, just my grandparents can remember a few phrases (like so prais) they learned from their Bulgarian teacher who was living with them. Very good person they say she was. My parents for example cannot speak a single word of Bulgarian or Macedonian since they were born during the 50s.