How common is it to mix up Slovenia and Slovakia in your country?

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Rejnu@reddit

Never, "Slowakei" and "Slowenien" are quite different so yeah

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Hot_Accident196@reddit

Bulgaria - never (0%). They even sound like in English - no mistakes.

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Next_League6403@reddit

What is the story behind these two names?

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Many-Rooster-7905@reddit

There are tons of Slav related toponyms throughout Slavic Europe, its just that these are country names while others are "only" regions or towns/villages

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CamelAmbitious7425@reddit

Thank god Slavonia is only a region and not a country otherwise i dont want to imagine the confusion People would have between Slovenia, Slovakia and Slavonia 😂

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Majestic_Potato_5408@reddit

You just afraid Serbia will claim Sorbia

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lelebato@reddit

Very rarely, but people tend to mix “slovenački” and “slovenski” when referring to Slovenian language.

Because Slovenci and Sloveni are two different kinds of people (Slovenians and Slavs), and slovenski is only used for Slavs in general, while slovenački is for Slovenian.

And there are also Slovaci and slovački.

So you end up with three words slovenački slovački slovenski

That mean three completely different things. But people rarely mix them up

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loco_mixer@reddit

how are slovenians ans slavs two different kind of people? slovenians are slavs.

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lelebato@reddit

I wanted to say that both words relate to different things (and have different meanings), not that Slovenians aren’t Slavs. That’s obvious

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AcanthisittaSure9251@reddit

I am an American. People who know they exist probably think they are the same country but a lot of people don’t know what either one is.

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Stverghame@reddit

Uncommon obviously.

What does piss me off when someone calls Slovenians "Sloveni" (Slavs) instead of "Slovenci". Or more more commonly, describing Slovenian things as "slovenski" (Slavic) instead of "slovenački".

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loco_mixer@reddit

why does that piss you off? are you gatekeeping slavness?

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Stverghame@reddit

Because it is illiterate.

Slavic = slovenski

Slovenian = slovenački

There's no gatekeeping here, just speaking Serbian properly.

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Stverghame@reddit

Dude, if you want to say something is Slovenian, it is slovenački. End of the story. It is Slavic as well, no one said it is not, but that doesn't narrow it down to being Slovenian.

All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. It is not so hard to understand.

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loco_mixer@reddit

i fail to realize why does this make you so emotional to piss you off. its a really small unimportant thing.

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Stverghame@reddit

The topic itself doesn't make me "emotional", though I gotta say, people acting smart without trying to comprehend what was written do piss me off.

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loco_mixer@reddit

its saturday, chill. no need to have another anger issue.

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konjo1994@reddit

yea thats where you're wrong... slovenski/slovensko is slovenian for your slovenački...

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Stverghame@reddit

How am I wrong? I speak Serbian, so I am obviously talking about Serbian language rules. Why would a Serb use Slovenian words for daily communication in the middle of Serbia?

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konjo1994@reddit

you're saying that somenthing in my language means something else in yours... when someone describes something as slovenski it doesn't always mean slavic...

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Stverghame@reddit

I am talking about Serbian. Do you understand? I am talking about Serbian. I am describing an issue among Serbian speakers while they speak Serbian. Do you understand? I AM TALKING ABOUT SERBIAN.

Hope that helps.

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lelebato@reddit

Slovenski is always “slavic” in Serbian, no exceptions. We Serbs are Sloveni too for example. That’s why the people from Yugoslavia were called Jugosloveni (South Slavs).

Slovenački is Slovenian. Slovenački jezik, Slovenci (with c), etc.

Slovakia is different, it’s slovački. Slovaci are the people.

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Ms_Auricchio@reddit

As an Italian living in Triest, it would be most uncommon ahah

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Snoo-42876@reddit

Never, unless the person is a total ćaci. On the other hand people often call Slovenians "sloveni" (slavs) and their language "slovenski" (slavic) and that really grinds my gears.

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Stealthfighter21@reddit

This is how they are called in Bulgarian

Sloveni and slovenski

Slavic people and language is slavyani and slavyanski

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RealShabanella@reddit

I love the fact that the word ćaci is now becoming international

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emuu1@reddit

That's what we call them in Croatian. Sloveni are Slovenians while Slaveni are Slavs.

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black3rr@reddit

slovenians call their language slovenščina, we slovaks call our language slovenčina…

slovenians call a Slovene woman “slovenka”, we call a Slovak woman “slovenka”…

fun…

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no-gi-greg@reddit

we say veter piha you say veter fuka 🤣

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pppktolki@reddit

In Bulgaria their embassies are located in the same building, so any confusion could be swiftly corrected.

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Organic_Contract_172@reddit

Ive actually seen it a few times here in former Czechoslovakia, mostly mixing up the flags and their names in english

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Acceptable-Spell-368@reddit

When I visited immigration office in Bulgaria, claimed I were Slovak and handed the clerk my ID stating Slovenská Republika, it took a lot of convincing I didn't forge it...

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RaspyLeaks@reddit

0% in Kosovo. The builders are in slovenia, the criminals in Slovakia. Easy to tell apart.

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David_Aaron_Finck@reddit

Never. Maybe for people from the other continent, it sounds pretty similar or same. For us it sounds totally different, so we in the region have no issues with.

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weoponized_donkey@reddit

They thought we think like Americans 😂😂😂

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That-Wrangler-7484@reddit

We still have a baking dish from Chechoslovakia. So 0%.

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Acceptable-Spell-368@reddit

Oh you. We still have the off brand socialist Lego stroitel.

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Ecstatic_Top_8797@reddit

I confess I used to. But now one my friends is from Slovenia and I bite my tongue before asking how is her father in Slovakia

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theyanardageffect@reddit

We dont have Slovenia or Slovakia in my country so mixing is not a case.

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dardan06@reddit

I used to be one of that guys…

However today I only mix up Lithuania and Latvia lol

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floare_salbatica@reddit

Most of us wouldn't pass this test. And I was pretty good in Geography actually 😅

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Vaisiamarrr@reddit

The names are more similar to each other in Romanian: Lituania and Letonia

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I am Slovenian, but grew up in the US. I had a teacher insist to me that Slovenia was formerly part of Czechoslovakia. Confusing the two is the default here, I think most people don’t even realize they are two different countries.

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Obvious_Serve1741@reddit

You're wrong. The name of the country was Czechoslovenia. 😄

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sokartes123@reddit

No more than Latvia and Lithuania.

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Austria and Australia is more common

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mrman08@reddit

G’day mate, i’ll have ein großes bier, bitter.

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gpetrov@reddit

Not as common as mixing Australia and Austria

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Binary_Bowser@reddit

everyone i know is too ignorant to know that Czechoslovakia doesnt exist anymore

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Zealousideal-Shoe527@reddit

Happens on major sporting events…

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GroundZeroMstrNDR@reddit

Not common but people sometimes are confused when they are in Bratislava and read that they are in "Slovensko"

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smellysmellyhairline@reddit

Pretty common

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Frank_cat@reddit

0%

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crolionfire@reddit

Zero per cent.

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Bro_said@reddit

You can’t mix up things you don’t know

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KarpetzNerd@reddit

Not too common, we are neighbours with you!

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crivycouriac@reddit (OP)

We had two prime ministers of our same neighboring country mixing us up.

Publicly.

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Acceptable-Spell-368@reddit

Things can be worse, have you seen the video where they ask a Belgian prime minister to sing their national anthem, and he starts singing the Marseillaise?

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Many-Rooster-7905@reddit

Bcs Belgium doesnt exist

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Many-Rooster-7905@reddit

0%

We actually love Slovakia 😝

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Inevitable-Theory901@reddit

Quite common in Bulgaria I've noticed. Most people don't know the difference.

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_Caligulean_@reddit

So uncommon that even the uneducated Neanderthals here know the difference

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ilovemangos3@reddit

People who have vaguely heard of them, often, but people who have been there I would say not at all. And then a large percentage who know nothing of them probably would a lot if they had the opportunity

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BadBasik@reddit

-100%

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PavelKringa55@reddit

Not at all.

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Big-Vegetable4550@reddit

Hey - you left out Slavonia!

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YngwieMainstream@reddit

Very uncommon.

One has a K in it. What's wrong with you people?

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