Re: Basque grammar

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From: Coro Kutz
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 03:13

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On Wed, 9 Mar 1994, Gorka Elordieta wrote:

Hi there,

Gorka comes also from the Russian Gorkiy (or Gorkij) I believe. Ask some
ppl from the #russian soc.culture group.

Coro

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Yes, I understand those people laughing at the name "Gorka". In Russian or
> Serbo-Croatian, for example, it means "bitter", and in German it means
> "cucumber". I've also been told that in Russian people say "Gorka!" in
 weddings
> and those occasions in which husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends
> are together, as an invitation to kiss. American people don't identify my
> accent or my name with any particular country or culture. Some of
> them hear my name and ask if I'm Russian, German, Czech, Scandinavian, or
> Greek. I tell them: "I'm from Lekitxo, do you know where it is?"
>
>
> Gorka Elordieta
>

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