Comments on: Jagshemash? http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/ Blog written by two Prague residents about life in the Czech Republic. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Dana http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-170703 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:49:11 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-170703 Very interesting! I looked into it and rumor has it that Klub Borat is a former name of <a href="http://www.klubujezd.cz/" rel="nofollow">Klub Újezd</a> in Malá Strana. The name of Cohen's character supposedly comes from the name of the club. I had no idea! Very interesting! I looked into it and rumor has it that Klub Borat is a former name of Klub Újezd in Malá Strana. The name of Cohen’s character supposedly comes from the name of the club. I had no idea!

]]> by: Jozin z Bazin http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-165631 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:30:32 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-165631 Hi guys, without dipping too much into the discussion here I tell just one thing - Borat is a name of a Prague Club where this guy - Sasha Cohen was coming for a while in late nineties....the Phrase Jak se mas comes from there as this is how the bartenders greeted him...from them I heard he is quite a drunkard....:) Hi guys, without dipping too much into the discussion here I tell just one thing - Borat is a name of a Prague Club where this guy - Sasha Cohen was coming for a while in late nineties….the Phrase Jak se mas comes from there as this is how the bartenders greeted him…from them I heard he is quite a drunkard….:)

]]> by: Bohunk http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-10921 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:42:41 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-10921 As a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, many words that Borat uses sound like old Ukrainian (pre-Soviet). Any Slav should know that many words are common from Poland to Serbia. I hope I'm not offending any Czechs, but I've always thought of Czech as a Slav language with ample germanic loaning. From my perspective, the movie is brilliant in it's satire of average America and not of Slavs or Central Asians. My two cents, Bohunk As a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, many words that Borat uses sound like old Ukrainian (pre-Soviet). Any Slav should know that many words are common from Poland to Serbia. I hope I’m not offending any Czechs, but I’ve always thought of Czech as a Slav language with ample germanic loaning. From my perspective, the movie is brilliant in it’s satire of average America and not of Slavs or Central Asians.

My two cents,

Bohunk

]]> by: izak http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2562 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:44:05 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2562 Wow, people got really testy over a simple question. "What language is he speaking in the movie?" Outside of the two trademark Borat greetings that actually are eastern european, he is speaking Hebrew, with a thick south russian accent. Sacha Baron Cohen, an observant jew, is the son of a Persian Israeli, and spent a year at a Kibbutz in Israel. Borat did an interview with an Israeli reporter recently, and the reporter,knowing Sacha's background, spoke in Hebrew to Borat. He responded by congratulating the jew on having learned a bit of Kazahk, and the two had an awkward exchange in would-be Kazahk. Very funny. http://www.bangitout.com/videos/viewvideo.php?a=280 Worth checking out. Ale ja jsem fakt chtel ziztit nekde, ze Cohen byl nejakou dobu ve stredni evrope, nebo mel pritelkine z krakowa, a kvuli tomu poziva polski obcas. Ale nic. Jeho holka je z Australi. I know that Cohen has extensively traveled, not only in the middle east, but also in and around Russia. So, maybe he picked up some terms that stuck. BTW, effisk, just because Sascha is Jewish, and "chag sameach" is the closest sounding term you've ever heard to "jagsemas," it doesn't give your theory any gas. You're way off base. He is in fact speaking Hebrew when he talks to his friends and family in the movie, but uses the aforementioned polish greeting, and well as the polish word for "thank you" as openers and closers on both the show and the film. It's a Borat staple. Wow, people got really testy over a simple question. “What language is he speaking in the movie?” Outside of the two trademark Borat greetings that actually are eastern european, he is speaking Hebrew, with a thick south russian accent. Sacha Baron Cohen, an observant jew, is the son of a Persian Israeli, and spent a year at a Kibbutz in Israel. Borat did an interview with an Israeli reporter recently, and the reporter,knowing Sacha’s background, spoke in Hebrew to Borat. He responded by congratulating the jew on having learned a bit of Kazahk, and the two had an awkward exchange in would-be Kazahk. Very funny.
http://www.bangitout.com/videos/viewvideo.php?a=280

Worth checking out.
Ale ja jsem fakt chtel ziztit nekde, ze Cohen byl nejakou dobu ve stredni evrope, nebo mel pritelkine z krakowa, a kvuli tomu poziva polski obcas. Ale nic. Jeho holka je z Australi.
I know that Cohen has extensively traveled, not only in the middle east, but also in and around Russia. So, maybe he picked up some terms that stuck.

BTW, effisk, just because Sascha is Jewish, and “chag sameach” is the closest sounding term you’ve ever heard to “jagsemas,” it doesn’t give your theory any gas. You’re way off base. He is in fact speaking Hebrew when he talks to his friends and family in the movie, but uses the aforementioned polish greeting, and well as the polish word for “thank you” as openers and closers on both the show and the film. It’s a Borat staple.

]]> by: effisk http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2556 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:11:33 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2556 "Chag Sameach" means "happy holiday" in Hebrew. Remember, Sacha is jewish. “Chag Sameach” means “happy holiday” in Hebrew.
Remember, Sacha is jewish.

]]> by: blackminorca http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2552 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:42:43 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2552 The fact that the "Kazakhstans" in the movie are actually Carpathians and the fact that "Jagshemash" is a greeting whose epicenter is also in the Carpathians means that "Kazakh" has nothing to do with Asians but it is meant to connote Kozaks. As such, this is the same old leftist bashing of slavs as "anti-semites" - something that the main stream media, Cambridge, and the Kremlin have been fond of doing ever since Duranty. The fact that the “Kazakhstans” in the movie are actually Carpathians and the fact that “Jagshemash” is a greeting whose epicenter is also in the Carpathians means that “Kazakh” has nothing to do with Asians but it is meant to connote Kozaks.

As such, this is the same old leftist bashing of slavs as “anti-semites” - something that the main stream media, Cambridge, and the Kremlin have been fond of doing ever since Duranty.

]]> by: Dana http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2546 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:12:42 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2546 Oh, I see. I plan on seeing the movie in about a week. If I figure it out or have any ideas, I'll post here. Oh, I see. I plan on seeing the movie in about a week. If I figure it out or have any ideas, I’ll post here.

]]> by: slroitman http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2545 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:35:30 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2545 Hi Dana- Thanks for the speedy reply. In the movie Borat, there are several scenes in which Sacha Baron Cohen is speaking to his friend and traveling companion, Azimat in what I termed in my previous post as "gibberish". I am curious to see what language they are speaking. I hope this clarifies my question. Thanks in advance for your time. Susannah Hi Dana-

Thanks for the speedy reply. In the movie Borat, there are several scenes in which Sacha Baron Cohen is speaking to his friend and traveling companion, Azimat in what I termed in my previous post as “gibberish”.
I am curious to see what language they are speaking.

I hope this clarifies my question.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Susannah

]]> by: Dana http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2544 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:09:03 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2544 Hi Susannah, I haven't seen the Borat movie yet. I've only seen Borat and Ali G episodes on TV (none of them very recently). I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to. As far as I know, Borat and Ali G both speak English, albeit not textbook English :), and Borat supposedly throws in some Polish. Some of the terms that both characters use are also included in the dictionary I linked to in my post (<a href="http://www.boyakasha.co.uk/pages/dictionary.htm" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Ali G</a>, <a href="http://www.boyakasha.co.uk/pages/borat_dictionary.htm" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Borat</a>). Can you give any examples of the situations in which Sacha Baron Cohen uses "gibberish"? Hi Susannah,

I haven’t seen the Borat movie yet. I’ve only seen Borat and Ali G episodes on TV (none of them very recently). I’m not sure what exactly you’re referring to. As far as I know, Borat and Ali G both speak English, albeit not textbook English :) , and Borat supposedly throws in some Polish. Some of the terms that both characters use are also included in the dictionary I linked to in my post (Ali G, Borat). Can you give any examples of the situations in which Sacha Baron Cohen uses “gibberish”?

]]> by: slroitman http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2543 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:50:57 +0000 http://blog.myczechrepublic.com/2006/10/26/jagshemash/#comment-2543 Boy I hope Marko doesn't read this post. I'm sure he'll think I'm a complete idiot. That being said at the risk of sounding like a dumb American. What is Sacha Baron Cohen speaking in Borat the movie and on the Ali G shows? Is some of it Polish? Some of it made up giberish? I spoke at length about this to my sister whose linguistic skills are above mine(she speaks 4 langauges) and she felt like the Sacha Baron Cohen was speaking mostly giberish. Any enlightenment you can give would be helpful. Thanks Susannah Lexington, Kentucky USA Boy I hope Marko doesn’t read this post. I’m sure he’ll think I’m a complete idiot.

That being said at the risk of sounding like a dumb American. What is Sacha Baron Cohen speaking in Borat the movie and on the Ali G shows? Is some of it Polish? Some of it made up giberish?
I spoke at length about this to my sister whose linguistic skills are above mine(she speaks 4 langauges) and she felt like the Sacha Baron Cohen was speaking mostly giberish.

Any enlightenment you can give would be helpful.

Thanks
Susannah
Lexington, Kentucky USA

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