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1 imenik 2 imenika 3 imeniki 4 imeniki 5 imenikov 6 imenikov … 101 imenik 102 imenika 103 imeniki … 201 imenik … 1001 imenik … Slavic languages are f*d up :D

• Swizec 12y ago
  Not to mention that I would never realise that "imenik" means directory. An imenik is a phone book. Potentially the Contacts app on my phone. But never a directory. I think this has to do with vocabulary registers as well. We've learned to use English words for computer things. Using Slovene translations just feels weird unless they're a bastardisation of the English word. Similar to how English uses French words for foods because cuisine was a thing of the elite and they didn't eat pig, they ate porc.
  • pif 12y ago
    But, a directory is a phone book!
    • Swizec 12y ago
      To you. To me it very much is not because as a kid I learned that directory is that thing on the computer where the other files are. Things like that are difficult to shake off no matter how well you know a language.
    • SixSigma 12y ago
      Surely a phone book is a directory, not the other way round.