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Former security chief Hughie Elbert Stover, meanwhile, is appealing his recent conviction and a three-year sentence for lying to investigators and ordering subordinates to destroy documents.
Jones' twin brother, Gene Jones, said the lawsuit seeks to hold others accountable for their actions.
"They blew a hole in our world when they killed our family, and I've got news for them. We're not going away without a fight," he said.
The other plaintiffs are their mother, Ruby Nell Lafferty Jones, and sister Cheryl Sue Jones. Dean's widow has reached a separate settlement.
In December, Alpha reached a $210 million non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that spared the corporation liability but left individuals open to prosecution. The deal guaranteed that the families of the dead miners and two co-workers who survived the explosion each receive $1.5 million.
Those who accept the payout can still pursue lawsuits, but the $1.5 million will be deducted from any settlement or jury award. At least eight families of dead miners previously settled with Massey.
The Jones family didn't learn Dean's fate until four days after the blast, when state mine safety officials informed them he had been found.
The lawsuit claims the family was led to believe he may have reached an underground safety chamber. Instead, he was actually killed instantly by powerful forces that knocked him down, then doubled back and struck him a second time.
Stanley, who represented two widows after a deadly January 2006 fire at another Massey mine, cited a memo that became the focal point of that wrongful death trial in his latest lawsuit. On Oct. 29, 2005, Blankenship issued a memo to all Massey underground mine superintendents, telling them to focus solely on production.
"If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything other than run coal ... you need to ignore them and run coal," it said. "This memo is only necessary because we seem not to understand that coal pays the bills."
The lawsuit says Upper Big Branch got the memo, and the message was received.
"Instead of cleaning up their act" after the deaths at the Alma No. 1 mine, "defendants redoubled their efforts at squeezing profits from safety-challenged UBB," the lawsuit says.
It says Jones briefly stopped production because of ventilation problems in the mine, and was immediately threatened with being fired, along with every miner working with him. The suit also charges one miner was fired for causing a 55-minute delay while he tried to ensure the crews had enough fresh air to prevent explosions.
Investigators said they found the mine explosion was sparked by worn cutting equipment, and that clogged and broken water sprayers failed to contain what should have been a minor methane flare-up.


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December 13th, 2006, 05:10 AM | #1 |
Buy a Fiat! Save the UAW!
Time to get those letter writen to the state!
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is ready to make a statement of concern to the legislature and govenor about it's proposal to continue for the next two decades with what it thinks needs to be the future of ORV riding in the State with regard to public trails, county roads and a riding area in Southeastern Michigan. We as ORVers have a last chance to make our voices heard by sending letters to the authorities to make sure we're included in the process.
Think about what you want on the ground and send in your thoughts. you have until 1-1-07 to get these is so make it happen people Steve Kubisiak, DNR Email: email@example.com or, Dick Ranney, D-14 Email: email@example.com if you need to read up on what the state has in its vision go to the ORV draft plan here http://www.michigan.gov/documents/OR...n_133074_7.pdf
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December 13th, 2006, 07:45 AM | #2 |
81 inches of fun
IE now is the time to quit your bitching people and try to do something about it!!!
Just sent my letter to each of them. It takes a whole 5 to 10 minutes. NOTHING will happen if they don't hear from us. Flood their email with letters of support! Think about it, the 'greenies' will likely be writing their letters and influencing the governor, if they have 40 or 50 people write in and we have 1000 I think they will notice us for once! |
December 14th, 2006, 12:49 AM | #4 |
Buy a Fiat! Save the UAW!
thats just it. I sat through the intire 4 hour meeting and the guy said nothing needed to be changed! he said we were good to go as is so the state realy intends to do nothing. so if you have any ideas you would like to ask for have at it.
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December 14th, 2006, 01:25 AM | #5 |
Buy a Fiat! Save the UAW!
I just wanted to add, the guy did make one recomendation. he wanted the cost of ORV stickers jacked to $25.50 to cover rising maintenance costs and to make way for more safety training that may or may not happen. I warned them it was a bad idea to jack the price because it would cause more folks to do without a sticker.
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Macedonian language
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Macedonian | |
Македонски јазик Makedonski jazik |
Pronunciation | [maˈkɛdɔnski jazik] |
Native to | Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria,[1][2] Greece, Serbia, Macedonian diaspora |
Region | Balkans |
Ethnicity | Macedonians |
Native speakers
unknown (2–2.5 million cited 1986–1998)[3] |
Dialects | |
Cyrillic (Macedonian alphabet) Macedonian Braille |
Official status | |
Official language in
Republic of Macedonia |
Recognised minority language in
Albania Romania[4] Serbia[5][6] |
Regulated by | Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov" at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | mk |
ISO 639-2 | mac (B) mkd (T) |
ISO 639-3 | mkd |
Linguasphere | 53-AAA-ha (part of 53-AAA-h) |
Macedonian (македонски јазик, makedonski jazik, pronounced [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik] ( )) is a South Slavic language, spoken as a first language by some two million people, principally in the Republic of Macedonia and the Macedonian diaspora, with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational region of Macedonia. It is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and an official minority language in parts of Albania, Romania and Serbia.
Standard Macedonian was implemented as the official language of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in 1945[7] and has since developed a thriving literary tradition. Most of the codification was formalized during the same period.[8][9][9]
Macedonian dialects form a continuum with Bulgarian dialects; they in turn form a broader continuum with Serbo-Croatian through the transitional Torlakian dialects.
The name of the Macedonian language is a matter of political controversy in Greece[10] as is its distinctiveness compared to Bulgarian in Bulgaria.[11][12]
The modern Macedonian language is unrelated to the Ancient Macedonian language. The modern Macedonian language belongs to the eastern group of the South Slavic branch of Slavic languages in the Indo-European language family, together with Bulgarian and the extinct Old Church Slavonic. Macedonian's closest relative is Bulgarian,[13] with which it has a high degree of mutual intelligibility.[12] The next closest relative is Serbo-Croatian. Language contact between Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian reached its height during Yugoslav times, when most Macedonians learned Serbo-Croatian as a compulsory language of education and knew and used Serbian (or "pseudo Serbian, i.e. a mixture of Serbian and Macedonian").[14]
All South Slavic languages, including Macedonian, form a dialect continuum.[12] Macedonian, along with Bulgarian and Torlakian (transitional varieties of Serbo-Croatian) also forms a part of the Balkan Sprachbund, a group of languages that share typological, grammatical and lexical features based on geographical convergence, rather than genetic proximity. Its other principal members are Romanian, Greek and Albanian, all of which belong to different genetic branches of the Indo-European family (Romanian is a Romance language, whereas Greek and Albanian comprise separate branches). Macedonian and Bulgarian are sharply divergent from the remaining South Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene,[15] and indeed all other Slavic languages, in that they do not use noun cases (except for the vocative, and apart from some traces of once productive inflections still found scattered throughout the languages). They are also the only Slavic languages with any definite articles, but only Macedonian has a set of three based on an external frame of reference: unspecified, proximal and distal definite article.
Prior to the codification of the standard language (Standard Macedonian), Macedonian dialects were described by linguists as being either dialects of Bulgarian[16][17][18] or Serbian.[19][20] Similarly, Torlakian was also widely regarded as Bulgarian.[21] The boundaries between the South Slavic languages had yet to be "conceptualized in modern terms,"[22] and codifiers of Serbian even found it necessary to argue that Bulgarian was not a Serbian dialect as late as 1822.[22] On the other hand, many Macedonian intellectuals maintained that their language "was neither a dialect of Serbian nor of Bulgarian, but a language in its own right".[23] Prior to the standardization of Macedonian, a number of linguists, among them Antoine Meillet,[24] Andre Vaillant,[25] Mieczysław Małecki,[26] and Samuil Bernstein,[27] also considered Macedonian dialects as comprising an independent language distinct from both Bulgarian and Serbian. Some linguists, especially in Bulgaria, still consider Macedonian a variety or dialect of Bulgarian,[28][29][30] but this view is politically controversial.[12][31][32] Modern questions of classification are largely shaped by political and social factors. Structurally, Macedonian, Bulgarian and southeastern forms of Serbo-Croatian (Torlakian) form a dialectical continuum[33] that is a legacy of the linguistic developments during the apogee of the Preslav and Ohrid literary schools.[34]
Although it has been claimed that Standard Macedonian was codified on the base of those dialects (i.e. the Prilep-Bitola dialect) most unlike Bulgarian,[35] this interpretation stems from the works of Krste Misirkov, who suggested that Standard Macedonian should abstract on those dialects "most distinct from the standards of the other Slavonic languages".[36] Likewise, this view does not take into account the fact that a Macedonian koiné language was already in existence.[37] The codifiers ultimately chose the same dialects, but did so because they were "most widespread and most likely to be adopted by speakers of other dialects."[38]
Geographical distribution[edit]
The population of the Republic of Macedonia was 2,022,547 in 2002, with 1,644,815 speaking Macedonian as their native language.[39] Outside of the Republic, there are Macedonians living in other parts of the geographical area of Macedonia. There are ethnic Macedonian minorities in neighbouring Albania, in Bulgaria, in Greece, and in Serbia. According to the official Albanian census of 1989, 4,697 ethnic Macedonians reside in Albania.[40]
A large number of Macedonians live outside the traditional Balkan Macedonian region, with Australia, Canada and the United States having the largest emigrant communities. According to a 1964 estimate, approximately 580,000 Macedonians live outside of the Macedonian Republic,[41] nearly 30% of the total population. The Macedonian language has the status of official language only in the Republic of Macedonia, and is a recognized minority and official language in parts of Albania (Pustec),[citation needed] Romania, and Serbia (Jabuka and Plandište). There are provisions for learning the Macedonian language in Romania as Macedonians are an officially recognized minority group. Macedoninan is taught in some universities in Australia, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Russia, Serbia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries.
Macedonian language in Greece[edit]
The varieties spoken by the Slavophone minority in parts of northern Greece, especially those in the Greek provinces of West and Central Macedonia, are today usually classified as part of the Macedonian language, with those in East Macedonia being transitional towards Bulgarian.[42] Bulgarian linguistics traditionally regards them all as part of the Bulgarian language together with the rest of Macedonian.[43][44] However, the codification of standard Macedonian has been in effect only in the Republic of Macedonia, and the Slavonic dialects spoken in Greece are thus practically "roofless",[45] with their speakers having little access to standard or written Macedonian.
Most of the language speakers in Greece do not identify ethnically as "Macedonians", but as ethnic Greeks (Slavophone Greeks) or dopii (locals). Therefore, the simple term "Macedonian" as a name for the Slavic language is often avoided in the Greek context, and vehemently rejected by most Greeks, for whom Macedonian has very different connotations. Instead, the language is often called simply "Slavic" or "Slavomacedonian", with "Macedonian Slavic" often being used in English. Speakers themselves variously refer to their language as makedonski, makedoniski ("Macedonian"),[46] slaviká (Greek: σλαβικά, "Slavic"), dópia or entópia (Greek: εντόπια, "local/indigenous [language]"),[47] balgàrtzki in some parts of the region of Kostur, bògartski ("Bulgarian") in some parts of Dolna Prespa [48] along with naši ("our own") and stariski ("old").[49] In Kostur, however, the name "Macedonian" is used as well by the local people.[50]
The exact number of speakers in Greece is difficult to ascertain, with estimates ranging between 20,000 and 250,000.[51][52] Jacques Bacid estimates in his 1983 book that "over 200,000 Macedonian speakers remained in Greece".[53] Other sources put the numbers of speakers at 180,000[54][unreliable source?],[55] 220,000[56] and 250,000, whereas Yugoslav sources vary, some putting the estimated number of "Macedonians in Greek Macedonia" at 150,000–200,000 and others at 300,000.[57] The Encyclopædia Britannica[58][dead link] and the Reader's Digest World Guide both put the figure of ethnic Macedonians in Greece at 1.8% or c.200,000 people, with the native language roughly corresponding with the figures. The UCLA also states that there are 200,000 Macedonian speakers in Greece.[59][60] A 2008 article in the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia put the estimate at 20,000.[61]
The largest group of speakers are concentrated in the Florina, Kastoria, Edessa, Giannitsa, Ptolemaida and Naousa regions. During the Greek Civil War, the codified Macedonian language was taught in 87 schools with 10,000 students in areas of northern Greece under the control of Communist-led forces, until their defeat by the National Army in 1949.[62] In recent years, there have been attempts to have the language recognized as a minority language.[63]
Relationship to Bulgarian[edit]
The historical and linguistic relationships between the Macedonian and Bulgarian languages are special and complicated. Macedonian researchers claim Macedonian is spoken in southwestern Bulgaria, whereas Bulgarians argue Macedonian is a variety of Bulgarian.
With the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire, its specific social system, and especially the so called Rum millet, began to degrade with the continuous identification of the religious creed with ethnicity.[64] The national awakening of each ethnic group inside it was too complex and most of the groups interacted with each other.
With the emergence of the Bulgarian national revival during the first half of the 19th century, the Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavs, who were under the supremacy of the Greek Orthodox clergy, wanted to create their own Church and schools in a common modern "Macedono-Bulgarian" literary standard, called simply Bulgarian.[65] Their originating national elites used mainly ethnolinguistic principles to differentiation between "Slavic-Bulgarian" and "Greek" groups.[66] At that time, every ethnographic subgroup in the Macedonian-Bulgarian linguistic area wrote in their own local dialect and a "base dialect" for the new standard was not an issue. Nevertheless, during the 1850s and 1860s a long discussion was held in the Bulgarian periodicals about the choice of the basic dialectal group (eastern, western or compromise) for the new standard.[67] During the 1870s this issue became contentious, and sparked fierce debates.[68]
After the establishment of a distinct Bulgarian state in 1878, Macedonia remained outside its borders, in the frame of the Ottoman Empire. As a consequence, the idea of a common compromise standard was rejected by the Bulgarian codifiers during the 1880s, when eastern Bulgarian dialects were chosen as a basis for the standard Bulgarian.[69] Macedono- Bulgarian writers and organizations who continued to seek greater representation of Macedonian dialects in the Bulgarian standard were deemed separatists.[70][71][72][73][74] One example is the Young Macedonian Literary Association, which the Bulgarian government outlawed in 1892. Though standard Bulgarian was taught in the local schools in Macedonia till 1913,[75] the fact of political separation became crucial for the development of a separate Macedonian language.[76]
With the rise of the Macedonian nationalism, the first rays of linguistic separatism emerged on the eve of the 1890s,[77] and the need for separate Macedonian standard language appeared firstly in the early 20th century.[78] In the Interwar period, the territory of today's Republic of Macedonia became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Bulgarian was banned for use and the local vernacular fell under heavy influence from the official Serbo-Croatian language.[79] However, the political and paramilitary organizations of the Macedonian Slavs in Europe and the Americas, the IMRO and the MPO, and even their left-wing offsets, the IMRO (United) and the Macedonian-American People's League continued to use literary Bulgarian in their writings and propaganda in the interbellum. During the World wars Bulgaria's short annexations over Macedonia saw two attempts to bring the Macedonian dialects back towards Bulgarian. This political situation stimulated the necessity of a separate Macedonian language and led gradually to its codification after the Second World War. It followed the establishment of SR Macedonia, as part of Communist Yugoslavia and finalized the progressive split in the common Macedonian–Bulgarian language.[80]
During the first half of the 20th century the national identity of the Macedonian Slavs shifted from predominantly Bulgarian to ethnic Macedonian and their regional identity had become their national one.[81][82][83] Although, there was no clear separating line between these two languages on level of dialect then, the Macedonian standard was based on its westernmost dialects. Afterwards, Macedonian became the official language in the new republic, Serbo-Croatian was adopted as a second official language, and Bulgarian was proscribed. Moreover, in 1946-1948 the newly standardized Macedonian language was introduced as a second language even in Southwestern Bulgaria.[84] Subsequently, the sharp and continuous deterioration of the political relationships between the two countries, the influence of both standard languages during the time, but also the strong Serbo-Croatian linguistic influence in Yugoslav era, led to a horizontal cross-border dialectal divergence.[85] Although some researchers have described the standard Macedonian and Bulgarian languages as varieties of a pluricentric language,[86] they in fact have separate dialectal bases; the Prilep-Bitola dialect and Central Balkan dialect, respectively. The prevailing academic consensus is that Macedonian and Bulgarian are two autonomous languages within the eastern subbranch of the South Slavic languages.[87] Today, Macedonian is still largely an ausbau language, that is intentionally diverged, particularly from Bulgarian.[88][89][90]
The total number of Macedonian speakers is highly disputed. Although the precise number of speakers is unknown, figures of between 1.6 million (from Ethnologue) and 2–2.5 million have been cited; see Topolinjska (1998) and Friedman (1985). The general academic consensus[citation needed] is that there are approximately 2 million speakers of the Macedonian language, accepting that "it is difficult to determine the total number of speakers of Macedonian due to the official policies of the neighbouring Balkan states and the fluid nature of emigration" Friedman (1985:?). According to the 2002 censuses and figures, the number of speakers of Macedonian is:
State | Number | ||
Census data | Lower range | Higher range | |
Macedonia | 1,344,815[91] | 1,344,815[91] | 2,022,547[92] |
Albania | 4,697[93] | 30,000[94] - 150,000[2] | |
Bulgaria | 1,404[95] | 1,404[96] | |
Greece | 35,000 [51] | ||
Serbia | 14,355[97] | 14,355[97] | 30,000[citation needed] |
Rest of the Balkans | 15,807[98][99][100][101][102] | 25,000 | |
Canada | 18,440 [103] | 18,440 [103] | 150,000[104] |
Australia | 72,000[105] | 72,000[105] | 200,000[104] |
Germany | 62,295[106] | 85,000[104] | |
Italy | 50,000[107] | 74,162[108] | |
United States of America | 45,000[109] | 200,000[104] | |
Switzerland | 6,415[110] | 60,116[111] | |
Rest of World | 101,600[104] | 110,000[99][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][119][100][101][120][121][122] | |
Total | 1,710,670[2] | 4,100,000 |
Dialect divisions of Macedonian[123] | |
Lower Polog
Crna Gora
Kumanovo / Kratovo
Upper Polog
Mala Reka / Galičnik
Drimkol / Golo Brdo
Vevčani / Radοžda
Upper Prespa / Ohrid
Lower Prespa
Mariovo / Tikveš
Štip / Strumica
Maleševo / Pirin
Solun / Voden
Ser / Drama
Based on a large group of features, Macedonian dialects can be divided into Eastern and Western groups (the boundary runs approximately from Skopje and Skopska Crna Gora along the rivers Vardar and Crna). In addition, a more detailed classification can be based on the modern reflexes of the Proto-Slavic reduced vowels (yers), vocalic sonorants, and the back nasal *ǫ. That classification distinguishes between the following 5 groups:[124]
Western Dialects:
- Ohrid-Prespa Group
- Debar Group
- Polog Group
- Kostur-Korča Group
Eastern Dialects:
- Northern Group
- Eastern Group
The Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop dialect and Maleševo-Pirin dialect are also considered Bulgarian dialects.[125]
Macedonian grammar is markedly analytic in comparison with other Slavic languages, having lost the common Slavic case system. The Macedonian language shows some special and, in some cases, unique characteristics due to its central position in the Balkans. Literary Macedonian is the only South Slavic literary language that has three forms of the definite article, based on the degree of proximity to the speaker, and a perfect tense formed by means of an auxiliary verb "to have", followed by a past participle in the neuter, also known as verbal adjective.
Macedonian nouns (именки, imenki) belong to one of three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) and are inflected for number (singular and plural), and marginally for case. The gender opposition is not distinctively marked in the plural.[126] The Macedonian nominal system distinguishes two numbers (singular and plural), three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), case and definiteness. Definiteness is expressed by three definite articles pertaining to the position of the object (unspecified, proximate and distal), which are suffixed to the noun.
The definite articles | ||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Unspecified | −ot (−от) | −ta (−та) | −to (−то) | −te (−те) | −ta (−та) | |
Proximate | −ov (−ов) | −va (−ва) | −vo (−во) | −ve (−ве) | −va (−ва) | |
Distal | −on (−он) | −na (−на) | −no (−но) | −ne (−не) | −na (−на) |
Macedonian has a complex system of verbs. Generally speaking Macedonian verbs have the following characteristics, or categories as they are called in Macedonistics: tense, mood, person, type, transitiveness, voice, gender and number.
According to the categorization, all Macedonian verbs are divided into three major groups: a-group, e-group and i-group. Furthermore, the i-subgroup is divided into three more subgroups: a-, e- and i-subgroups. This division is done according to the ending (or the last vowel) of the verb in the simple present, singular, third person.[127] Regarding the form, the verb forms can be either simple or complex.
The Macedonian simple verb forms are:
The Macedonian complex verb forms are:
Prepositions (предлози, predlozi) are part of the closed word class that are used to express the relationship between the words in a sentence. Because Macedonian lost its case system, the prepositions are very important for creation and expression of various grammatical categories. The most important Macedonian preposition is 'na' ('of', 'on', 'to'). Regarding the form, the prepositions can either be simple or complex. Based on the meaning the preposition express, they can be divided into prepositions of time, place, manner and quantity.[127][128]
As a result of the close relatedness with Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian shares a considerable amount of its lexicon with these languages. Other languages that have been in positions of power, such as Ottoman Turkish and, increasingly, English also provide a significant proportion of the loanwords. Prestige languages, such as Old Church Slavonic—which occupies a relationship to modern Macedonian comparable to the relationship of medieval Latin to modern Romance languages—and Russian also provided a source for lexical enrichment.
During the standardization process, there was deliberate care taken to try and purify the lexicon of the language. Serbianisms and Bulgarianisms, which had become common due to the influence of these languages in the region were rejected in favor of words from native dialects and archaisms. One example was the word for "event", настан [ˈnastan], which was found in certain examples of folk poetry collected by the Miladinov Brothers in the 19th century, whereas the Macedonian writer Krste Misirkov had previously used the word собитие [sɔˈbitiɛ], a Russian loanword (событие).[129] This is not to say that there are no Serbianisms, Bulgarianisms or even Russianisms in the language, but rather that they were discouraged on a principle of "seeking native material first".[130]
The language of the writers at the turn of 19th century abounded with Russian and, more specifically, Old Church Slavonic lexical and morphological elements that in the contemporary norm are substituted with native words or calqued using productive morphemes.[131] Thus, the now slightly archaicized forms with suffixes –ние and –тел, adjectives with the suffixes –телен and others, are now constructed following patterns more typical of Macedonian morphology. For example, дејствие (Russ. действие) corresponds to дејство 'action', лицемерие (Russ. лицемерие) → лицемерство 'hypocrisy', развитие (Russ. развитие) → развиток 'development', определение (Russ. определение) → определба 'determination, orientation', движение (Russ. движение) → движење 'movement', продолжител (Russ. продолжитель) → продолжувач 'extender, continuator', победител (Russ. победитель) → победник 'winner, victor', убедителен (Russ. убедительный) → убедлив 'convincing, persuasive', etc.[131] Many of these words are now obsolete or archaic (as with развитие), synonymous (лицемерие and лицемерство) or have taken on a slightly different nuance in meaning (дејствие 'military act' vs. дејство 'act, action' in a general sense).
The use of Ottoman Turkish loanwords is discouraged in the formal register when a native equivalent exists (e.g. комшија (← Turk. komşu) vs. сосед (← PSl. *sǫsědъ) 'neighbor'), and these words are typically restricted to the archaic, colloquial, and ironic registers.[132]
New words were coined according to internal logic and others calqued from related languages (especially Serbo-Croatian) to replace those taken from Russian, which include известие (Russ. известие) → извештај 'report', количество (Russ. количество) → количина 'amount, quantity', согласие (Russ. согласие) → слога 'concord, agreement', etc.[131] This change was aimed at bringing written Macedonian closer to the spoken language, effectively distancing it from the Bulgarian language with its numerous Russian loans, and represents a successful puristic attempt to abolish a lexicogenic tradition once common in written literature.[131]
Writing system[edit]
The modern Macedonian alphabet was developed by linguists in the period after the Second World War, who based their alphabet on the phonetic alphabet of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, though a similar writing system was used by Krste Misirkov in the early 20th century. The Macedonian language had previously been written using the Early Cyrillic alphabet, or later using the Cyrillic script with local adaptations from either the Serbian or Bulgarian alphabets.
The following table provides the upper and lower case forms of the Macedonian alphabet, along with the IPA value for each letter:
Cyrillic IPA |
А а /a/ |
Б б /b/ |
В в /v/ |
Г г /ɡ/ |
Д д /d/ |
Ѓ ѓ /ɟ/ |
Е е /ɛ/ |
Ж ж /ʒ/ |
З з /z/ |
Ѕ ѕ /dz/ |
И и /i/ |
Cyrillic IPA |
Ј ј /j/ |
К к /k/ |
Л л /ɫ, l/[133] |
Љ љ /l/[133] |
М м /m/ |
Н н /n/ |
Њ њ /ɲ/ |
О о /ɔ/ |
П п /p/ |
Р р /r/ |
С с /s/ |
Cyrillic IPA |
Т т /t/ |
Ќ ќ /c/ |
У у /u/ |
Ф ф /f/ |
Х х /x/ |
Ц ц /ts/ |
Ч ч /tʃ/ |
Џ џ /dʒ/ |
Ш ш /ʃ/ |
Macedonian orthography is consistent and phonemic in practice, an approximation of the principle of one grapheme per phoneme. A principle represented by Adelung's saying, "write as you speak and read as it is written" ("пишувај како што зборуваш и читај како што е напишано"). However, there are occasional inconsistencies or exceptions.
South Slavic languages and dialects | ||||||
Western South Slavic
Eastern South Slavic
Transitional dialects
The region of Macedonia and the Republic of Macedonia are located on the Balkan peninsula. The Slavs first came to the Balkan Peninsula in the sixth and seventh centuries AD. In the ninth century, the Byzantine Greek monks[134][135][136][137][138][139][140][141] Saints Cyril and Methodius developed the first writing system for the Slavonic languages. At this time, the Slavic dialects were so close as to make it practical to develop the written language on the dialect of a single region. There is dispute as to the precise region, but it is likely that they were developed in the region around Thessalonika. The Ohrid Literary School was established in Ohrid in 886 by Saint Clement of Ohrid on orders of Boris I of Bulgaria. In the fourteenth century, the Ottoman Turks invaded and conquered most of the Balkans, incorporating Macedonia into the Ottoman Empire. Although the written language, now called Old Church Slavonic, remained static as a result of Turkish domination, the spoken dialects moved further apart.
The earliest lexicographic evidence of the Macedonian dialects, described as Bulgarian,[142] can be found in a lexicon from the 16th century written in the Greek alphabet.[143] The concept of the various Macedonian dialects as a part of the Bulgarian language[144] can be seen also from early vernacular texts from Macedonia such as the four-language dictionary of Daniel Mоscopolites, the works of Kiril Peichinovich and Yoakim Karchovski, and some vernacular gospels written in the Greek alphabet. These written works influenced by or completely written in the local Slavic vernacular appeared in Macedonia in the 18th and beginning of the 19th century and their authors referred to their language as Bulgarian.[145]
In 1845 the Russian scholar Viktor Grigorovich travelled in the Balkans to study the south Slavic dialects of Macedonia. His work articulated for the first time a distinct pair of two groups of Bulgarian dialects: Eastern and Western (spoken in today Western Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia). According to his findings, a part of the Western Bulgarian variety, spoken in Macedonia, was characterized by traces of Old Slavic nasal vowels.[146] During the increase of national consciousness in the Balkans, standards for the languages of Slovene, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian were created. As Turkish influence in Macedonia waned, schools were opened up that taught the Bulgarian standard language in areas with significant Bulgarian population.
However, the Russian linguist of Bulgarian origin, Petar Draganov (1857 - 1928), after his visit of Macedonia, strongly opposed this 'Bulgarian origin of the Macedonian dialects', and he claimed that Macedonia is a separate ethnogeographic unit of the Balkans and the Macedonian dialects form separate language.[147] Similar ideas were proposed in Krste Misirkov's works. Misirkov was born in a village near Pella in Greek Macedonia. Although literature had been written in the Slavic dialects of Macedonia before, arguably the most important book published in relation to the Macedonian language was Misirkov's On Macedonian Matters, published in 1903. In that book, he argued for creation of a standard literary Macedonian language from the central dialects of Macedonia that would use a phonemic orthography.
After the first two Balkan wars, the region of Macedonia was split between Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia (later Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Yugoslavia). Serbia occupied the area that is currently the Republic of Macedonia incorporating it into the Kingdom as "Southern Serbia". During this time, Yugoslav Macedonia became known as Vardar Banovina (Vardar province) and the language of public life, education and the church was Serbo-Croatian. In the other two parts of Macedonia, the respective national languages, Greek and Bulgarian, were made official. In Bulgarian (Pirin) Macedonia, the local dialects continued to be described as dialects of Bulgarian.
During the second World War, most of Yugoslav Macedonia was occupied by the Bulgarian army, who was allied with the Axis. The standard Bulgarian language was reintroduced in schools and liturgies. The Bulgarians were initially welcomed as liberators from Serbian domination until connections were made between the imposition of the Bulgarian language and unpopular Serbian assimilation policies.[148] Even the Macedonian communist were then pro-Bulgarian oriented, but later the Bulgarians were seen as conquerors by communist movement.[149] However, there were pro-Bulgarian groups, which advocated independence as second Bulgarian state,[150] and others, who supported the union with Bulgaria.[151]
The eventual outcome was that almost all of Vardar Banovina (i.e. the areas that geographically became known as Vardar Macedonia) was incorporated into the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a constituent Socialist Republic with the Macedonian language holding official status within both the Federation and Republic. The Macedonian language was proclaimed the official language of the Republic of Macedonia at the First Session of the Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, held on August 2, 1944. The first official Macedonian grammar was developed by Krume Kepeski. One of the most important contributors in the standardisation of the Macedonian literary language was Blaže Koneski. The first document written in the literary standard Macedonian language is the first issue of the Nova Makedonija newspaper in 1944. Makedonska Iskra (Macedonian Spark) was the first Macedonian newspaper published in Australia, from 1946 to 1957. A monthly with national distribution, it commenced in Perth and later moved to Melbourne and Sydney.
Political views on the language[edit]
As with the issue of Macedonian ethnicity, the politicians, linguists and common people from Macedonia and neighbouring countries have opposing views about the existence and distinctiveness of the Macedonian language.
In the ninth century AD, saints Cyril and Methodius introduced Old Church Slavonic, the first Slavic language of literacy. Written with their newly invented Glagolitic script, this language was based largely on the dialect of Slavs spoken in Thessaloniki; this dialect is closest to present-day Macedonian and Bulgarian.[152]
Although described as being dialects of Bulgarian[43][125] or Serbian[19][20] prior to the establishment of the standard, the current academic consensus (outside of Bulgaria) is that Macedonian is an autonomous language within the South Slavic dialect continuum.[153]
Bulgarian view[edit]
In most sources in and out of Bulgaria before the Second World War, the southern Slavonic dialect continuum covering the area of today's Republic of Macedonia and Northern Greece was referred to as a group of Bulgarian dialects. The local variants of the name of the language were also balgàrtzki, bùgarski or bugàrski; i.e. Bulgarian.[154] Although Bulgaria was the first country to recognize the independence of the Republic of Macedonia, most of its academics, as well as the general public, regard the language spoken there as a form of Bulgarian.[3] However, after years of diplomatic impasse caused by an academic dispute, in 1999 the government in Sofia solved the problem of the Macedonian language by using the euphemistic formula: "the official language of the country (Republic of Macedonia) in accordance with its constitution".[155]
Greek view[edit]
Greeks object to the use of the "Macedonian" name in reference to the modern Slavic language, calling it "Slavomacedonian" (Greek: σλαβομακεδονική γλώσσα), a term coined by some members of the Slavic-speaking community of northern Greece itself.[156]
See also[edit]
- Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache
- Balkan language area
- Macedonian alphabet
- Macedonian Sign Language
- Macedonian language naming dispute
- Political views on the Macedonian language
- Romanisation of Macedonian
- Slavic dialects of Greece
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- ^ "Up until the early 20th century and beyond, the international community viewed Macedonians as regional variety of Bulgarians, i.e. Western Bulgarians."Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe, Geographical perspectives on the human past : Europe: Current Events, George W. White, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, ISBN 0847698092, p. 236.
- ^ "At the end of the WWI there were very few historians or ethnographers, who claimed that a separate Macedonian nation existed... Of those Slavs who had developed some sense of national identity, the majority probably considered themselves Bulgarians, although they were aware of differences between themselves and the inhabitants of Bulgaria... The question as of whether a Macedonian nation actually existed in the 1940s when a Communist Yugoslavia decided to recognize one is difficult to answer. Some observers argue that even at this time it was doubtful whether the Slavs from Macedonia considered themselves a nationality separate from the Bulgarians."The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world, Loring M. Danforth, Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, pp. 65-66.
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- ^ a b 〈Л〉 is /l/ before front vowels and /ɫ/ before back vowels. 〈Љ〉 is /l/ before back vowels.
- ^ Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001–05, s.v. "Cyril and Methodius, Saints"; Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Incorporated, Warren E. Preece – 1972, p.846, s.v., "Cyril and Methodius, Saints" and "Eastern Orthodoxy, Missions ancient and modern"; Encyclopedia of World Cultures, David H. Levinson, 1991, p.239, s.v., "Social Science"; Eric M. Meyers, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, p.151, 1997; Lunt, Slavic Review, June, 1964, p. 216; Roman Jakobson, Crucial problems of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies; Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky, A Handbook of Slavic Studies, p.98; V.Bogdanovich , History of the ancient Serbian literature, Belgrade, 1980, p.119
- ^ The Columbia Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition. 2001–05, O.Ed. Saints Cyril and Methodius "Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, "Greek missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature."
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic, were invented by St. Cyril, or Constantine (c. 827–869), and St. Methodius (c. 825–884). These men were Greeks from Thessaloniki who became apostles to the southern Slavs, whom they converted to Christianity."
- ^ Hastings, Adrian (1997). The construction of nationhood: ethnicity, religion, and nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 126. ISBN 0-521-62544-0. ". the activity of the brothers Constantine (later renamed Cyril) and Methodius, aristocratic Greek priests who were sent from Constantinople."
- ^ Fletcher, R. A. (1999). The barbarian conversion: from paganism to Christianity. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 327. ISBN 0-520-21859-0.
- ^ Cizevskij, Dmitrij; Zenkovsky, Serge A.; Porter, Richard E. Comparative History of Slavic Literatures. Vanderbilt University Press. pp. vi. ISBN 0-8265-1371-9. ""Two Greek brothers from Salonika, Constantine who later became a monk and took the name Cyril and Methodius."
- ^ The illustrated guide to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. p. 14. ISBN 0-19-521462-5. "In Eastern Europe, the first translations of the Bible into the Slavonic languages were made by the Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius in the 860s"
- ^ Smalley, William Allen (1991). Translation as mission: Bible translation in the modern missionary movement. Macon, Ga.: Mercer. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-86554-389-8. "The most important instance where translation and the beginning church did coincide closely was in Slavonic under the brothers Cyril, Methodius, with the Bible completed by A.D. 880 This was a missionary translation but unusual again (from a modern point of view) because not a translation into the dialect spoken where the missionaries were The brothers were Greeks who had been brought up in Macedonia."
- ^ Littera et Lingua, ISSN 1312-6172, Пролет 2010, Лилия Илиева, Нови данни за българската поезия през ХVІ и ХVІІ век.
- ^ 'Un Lexique Macedonien Du XVIe Siecle', Giannelli, Ciro. Avec la collaboration de Andre Vaillant, 1958
- ^ Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world, Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie, Elsevier, 2008, ISBN 0-08-087774-5, pp. 120; 663.
- ^ F. A. K. Yasamee "NATIONALITY IN THE BALKANS: THE CASE OF THE MACEDONIANS" in Balkans: A Mirror of the New World Order, Istanbul: EREN, 1995; pp. 121–132.
- ^ Seriot (1997:177)
- ^ and the Macedonians: a history By Andrew Rossos
- ^ The A to Z of Bulgaria, Raymond Detrez, Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2010, ISBN 0810872021, p. 485.
- ^ Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992, Dejan Djokíc, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2003, ISBN 1850656630, p. 119.
- ^ War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration, Jozo Tomasevich, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804779244p. 167.
- ^ The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949, Christopher M. Woodhouse, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1850654875,p. 67.
- ^ Dostál (1965:69)
- ^ Trudgill (1992:?)
- ^ Шклифов, Благой and Екатерина Шклифова, Български деалектни текстове от Егейска Македония, София 2003, с. 28–33 (Shklifov, Blagoy and Ekaterina Shklifova. Bulgarian dialect texts from Aegean Macedonia Sofia 2003, p. 28–36)
- ^ 1999/02/22 23:50 Bulgaria Recognises Macedonian Language
- ^ Although acceptable in the past, current use of this name in reference to both the ethnic group and the language can be considered pejorative and offensive by ethnic Macedonians. In the past, the Macedonian Slavs in Greece seemed relieved to be acknowledged as Slavomacedonians. Pavlos Koufis, a native of Greek Macedonia, pioneer of ethnic Macedonian schools in the region and local historian, says in Laografika Florinas kai Kastorias (Folklore of Florina and Kastoria), Athens 1996:
"[During its Panhellenic Meeting in September 1942, the KKE mentioned that it recognises the equality of the ethnic minorities in Greece] the KKE recognised that the Slavophone population was ethnic minority of Slavomacedonians]. This was a term, which the inhabitants of the region accepted with relief. [Because] Slavomacedonians = Slavs+Macedonians. The first section of the term determined their origin and classified them in the great family of the Slav peoples."
The Greek Helsinki Monitor reports:
"... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness. Unfortunately, according to members of the community, this term was later used by the Greek authorities in a pejorative, discriminatory way; hence the reluctance if not hostility of modern-day Macedonians of Greece (i.e. people with a Macedonian national identity) to accept it."
- Comrie, Bernard; Corbett, Greville (2002), "The Macedonian language", The Slavonic Languages, New York: Routledge Publications
- Dostál, Antonín (1965), "The Origins of the Slavonic Liturgy", Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University) 19: 67–87, doi:10.2307/1291226, JSTOR 1291226
- Hill, P. (1999), "Macedonians in Greece and Albania: A comparative study of recent developments", Nationalities Papers 27 (1): 17, doi:10.1080/009059999109163
- Friedman, Victor (2001), "Macedonian", in Garry, Jane; Rubino, Carl, Facts about the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the Worlds Major Languages, Past and Present, New York: Holt, pp. 435–439
- Friedman, Victor (1998), "The implementation of standard Macedonian: problems and results", International Journal of the Sociology of Language (131): 31–57
- Hoxha, Artan; Gurraj, Alma (2001), "Local self-government and decentralization: case of Albania. History, reforms and challenges." (PDF), Local Self Government and Decentralization in South-East Europe:Proceedings of the Workshop held in Zagreb, 6th April 2001, pp. 194–224
- Levinson, David; O'Leary, Timothy (1992), Encyclopedia of World Cultures, G.K. Hall, p. 239, ISBN 0-8161-1808-6
- Lunt, Horace G. (1952), Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language, Skopje
- Mahon, Milena (1998), "The Macedonian question in Bulgaria", Nations and Nationalism 4 (3): 389–407, doi:10.1111/j.1354-5078.1998.00389.x
- Poulton, Hugh (2000), Who Are the Macedonians?, United Kingdom: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., ISBN 0-253-34598-7
- Seriot, Patrick (1997), "Faut-il que les langues aient un nom? Le cas du macédonien", in Tabouret-Keller, Andrée, Le nom des langues. L'enjeu de la nomination des langues 1, Louvain: Peeters, pp. 167–190
- Topolinjska, Z. (1998), "In place of a foreword: facts about the Republic of Macedonia and the Macedonian language", International Journal of the Sociology of Language (131): 1–11
- Trudgill, Peter (1992), "Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in contemporary Europe", International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2 (2): 167–177, doi:10.1111/j.1473-4192.1992.tb00031.x
Further reading[edit]
- Kramer, Christina (2003), Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students. (2nd ed.), University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-18804-7
- Documents, Contes et Chansons Slaves de l'Albanie du Sud, Andre Mazon - 1936.
- L'Evangeliaire de Kulakia Un parler Slave du Bas-Vardar, Andre Mazon et Andre Vaillant - 1938.
- Dwie gwary macedońskie (Suhe i Wysoka w Soluńskiem) – Teksty, Mieczysław Małecki - in Polish, 1936.
External links[edit]
Macedonian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Macedonian |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Macedonian language. |
- Dictionary of three languages - Gjorgija Pulevski, 1875.
- Zur Sprachlichen Beurtellung der Macedonischen slaven, Leonhard Masing - in German, 1890.
- Zur Laut- und Akzentlehre der Macedonischen dialekte, Leonhard Masing - in German, 1891.
- MACEDONISCHEN STUDIEN, Vatroslav Oblak - in German, 1896.
- Un Lexique Macedonien du XVI siecle (French)
- Dwie gwary macedońskie (Suhe i Wysoka w Soluńskiem) – Teksty , Mieczysław Małecki - in Polish, 1934.
- Macedonian grammar, Krume Kepeski – 1946, in Macedonian
- Macedonian orthography and dictionary, Blaže Koneski and Krum Tošev – 1950, in Macedonian
- Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language, Horace Lunt – 1952
- The first phonological conference for Macedonian with short history, Victor Friedman.
Macedonian language[edit]
- Macedonian Grammar
- A grammar of Macedonian by Victor Friedman
- Macedonian - English Dictionary
- Macedonian Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)
- Macedonian Language E-Learning Center - learn Macedonian language online
- Digital Database of the Macedonian Words
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I just upgraded my ATV2 to 5.1 and installed the new XBMC Eden on mine.
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You can assume that the ODP community is no different. Where people see the value in an automated approach, there will be an attempt (often multiple attempts) to create the automation. And there are always ongoing discussions of what can be automated, and how well the current tools work. One early ODP example: Some of you may be old enough to remember when Yahoo was 10% or more dead links (back before before link ghouls or annual directory renewal fees, so dead links stayed dead and buried.) Robozilla was the first link rot checker for any major directory. Internal automated spam approaches, we don't publicly discuss, because of the fact that, given access to quick turnaround on penetration tests, spammers can trivially breach any automated antispam approach. (For instance, consider the amount of marketing spam that passes through all of GOOGLE'S highly sophisticated automated tests--a regular complaint here.) But as long as spammers don't know what happens to their submittal spam, they can't adapt; they'll just keep wasting effort on techniques that don't work. I don't feel the lack of any specific automatic filters.
Well, in every community the choice of community tools is always a "political" process. You can generate tools all day long, but if the people don't find them useful, they don't get used. On the other hand, if the people find tools useful, they'll ask for more of them.


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1997 1 oz Australian Platinum Koala (MS-69 NGC)
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Product ID: | 77324 |
Year: | 1997 |
Grade: | MS-69 |
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Diameter: | 32.1 mm |
Thickness: | 2.7 mm |


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Climbing Gear | Rock Climbing Equipment at Moosejaw
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Works just as expected, has a very good gate clearance which makes for easy clipping. The size is very slightly bigger than most HMS biners (i think) but it's pretty good. Goo…
- Miguel, 05/05/12
Prescott, AZ
The twist lock gate is way too easy to open and i could imagine it coming open from rope or gear sliding across it and pressing just the right way. I suggest trying it out fi…
Was talked down to this harness by those in the know, as this is my first. (I wanted a fancy out-of-my-league Arc'teryx) Nice and comfy while resting. Belt clasp needs to be d…
- Chris, 06/17/12
Just getting started in climbing this is my first harness. This is one of only three that came up when I searched for a harness in the XXL size. This is the best one that I he…
- Ryan, 07/04/12
I got my girl a sack to put her new ball in! She loves it!…
- Kevin, 01/06/10
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It's the only chalk sock I've used, but it's worked well for me.…
- Angela, 12/27/09
Little on a smallish side as a belay biner, but a good locker otherwise. Light.…
- Goran, 03/27/13
Strong, small, and compact is the best way to describe it. I use it on a quickdraw and it works great. Love the key lock, prevents snags and other problems when clipping. Thum…
- Ryan, 05/03/11
Philadelphia, PA
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Holy cow, there's so much to talk about when it comes to climbing gear, I don't really know where to start. That's my new thing: saying "holy cow". I think it's really going to catch on. I also brought back high-fives and saying rad, but don't tell anyone, I don't want all the attention. So, anyway, there's like a whole slew (also bringing back "slew") of gear you're gonna need for climbing depending on the style of rock climbing you're planning to do. Check out the Moosejaw Companion, our very own gear guide put together by the really hot guy who sits across the room. I'm making eyes at him right now. So hot. Anyway, the Moosejaw Companion gives you a whole package of sweet gear, picked by total badasses, for trad climbing, top rope, sport climbing, gym climbing, and bouldering. It's got the raddest new gear from the best brands. Promise. They tell me climbing harnesses are essential to not falling and breaking both of your arms and that little bone in your inner ear. I'm pretty sure that's true. Check out men's and women's rock climbing harnesses from Black Diamond, Arc'teryx, Petzl, Camp USA, Metolius, and Mammut. There are even kids' climbing harnesses. I was a cowardly child, so if your kid is going rock climbing, kudos to you for raising a future BA. You're probably gonna want some climbing shoes to give you a good grip, flexiblilty and traction on the rock. We've got those too. I just asked the hot guy to make sure. He looked at me like I was super dumb. At least I got to talk to him. Check out rock climbing shoes, including lace-ups and slip-ons, from La Sportiva, 5.10, Scarpa, and other badass brands. It's not all harnesses and shoes, I'm sure. Check out all the rest of the gear. I'm talking ascenders, belay devices, including the Petzl GriGri 2, ropes, slings, protection - all kinds of stuff really. We've got like a mega ton of carabiners, both locking and non-locking, plus quickdraws. You could grab some dogbones and make your own draws, I guess. That guy told me that. If you're a total badass, check out haul bags and portaledges for big wall climbing. |


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