I didn't know what my grandfather meant by "Nos Drovnya!", but it was a toast to a good something. I don't have to know exactly what it means to understand the feeling. "L'shanah tovah!" to you and all of yours. I hope I got it right.
Thank you. I had to spell it as my mind's ear remembered over 25 years. I used to plague my grandma, who survived him, with requests for teaching me Ukrainian. It was partly genuine curiosity and partly trying to keep her brain going, as she wasn't a ready teacher. When I got her onto cooking back when, she'd roll.
In another context, Joni Mitchell was right: "Don't you know, it seems to go, You don't know what you got 'til it's gone."
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-30 03:11 am (UTC)-- Dagonell, who mundanely has a Slavic background.
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Date: 2008-09-30 06:30 am (UTC)In another context, Joni Mitchell was right:
"Don't you know, it seems to go,
You don't know what you got 'til it's gone."