Moravia was once Greater Moravia and I think had a king.
To Chas E: One swallow doesn’t make a summer, and if I got better results with a so-called “search-engine” than Straight Dope I would be using them. To Chronos: I do use them and I repeat that they give you BUSINESS first or something else irrelevant. Look up Belgium, for example, and HOTELS appear and TOURISM. To everyone: Look up anything to do with France and you get the answer in French and then press translate and you get the ansswer in French again, because everybody has to make way for the French because of their inferiority feelings about their puny language that have peeved them so over the years that they have somehow managed to get French on everything you buy, which no one has explained yet. Then they have the nerve to prohibit English in Quebec! All right I admit this might be thought to be a stupid opinion of mine, but I’d rather have a stupid opinion than be smug. And I’m also part French.
Je ne comprends pas le but de votre message. Quelle est la question? Lisez SVP attentivement la description des forums sur la page d’entrée de ce centre de messages. A votre place, j’aurais mis mon commentaire dans le forum des “choses mondaines et insignifiantes que je dois partager” ou “la fosse pour le barbeque”.
Aussi j’aimerais dire que cette haine de la langue française est la marque typique de l’américain habitué à ne jamais entendre une langue étrangère dans la vie quotidienne. C’est la marque d’un manque de culture prévalent (malheureusement) aux Etats-Unis.
This thread was apparently meant to be a reply to a previous thread about the Moravian religious group. I’m closing this; feel free to re-post that into the proper thread, don willard.