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marek1@ix.netcom.com (Marek Konski) wrote:
> In <3nfq9s$184@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi>
> writes: 
> >Can there found also such Slovak names like "los" (moose) or "sob"
> >(reindeer). Also those animals don't exist anymore in Central Europe.
> Unbelievable!!!
> There are herds of moose (l/os') in Kampinoska Forest National Park,
> just outside Warsaw, and beyond it. I, myself, met one while picking
> mushrooms in my hometown. Sometimes they even venture into towns and
> roam the streets.

Sorry about "los". Of course it is quite probably that in early
times losy were living more also in south. But I really didn't
know, that they are yet in Poland. Baltic area I know.
The reason why I asked also 'los' was in my experiments in former
Czechoslovakia. Very often I had to draw a picture of moose and
still everybody didn't know the animal.

This reminds me of another funny language mistake I made (in Slovak)
when trying to explain what kind is los.

To je ako jedla ale velky ako koniec.
(perhaps 'jedla' isn't written correctly here).

So I wanted to say, that 'it is like deer, but great like horse' but
said 'it is like tree (a kind of), but great like the end'.

Jorma Kyppo
Laukaa, Finland
jorma@jytko.jyu.fi