Slovenia SLOVENIA 2015 - Maraaya - Here for You

[GRE]

Btw,
many people often confuse Slovenia with Slovakia. Not only their names, but also their flags are similar.
Is that a coincidence or something connects these two countries ?

 

[lavieenrose]

Btw,
many people often confuse Slovenia with Slovakia. Not only their names, but also their flags are similar.
Is that a coincidence or something connects these two countries ?

Don't the ambassadors for each country from each country meet up once a month to exchange misaddressed mail?

 

[EscGeek]

Btw,
many people often confuse Slovenia with Slovakia. Not only their names, but also their flags are similar.
Is that a coincidence or something connects these two countries ?

"Slovensko" means Slovakia in their language
Both countries gained independence in early 90's
don't forget the common history under Austria-Hungary
and the most important reason of all...people don't give a sh!t about geography

 

[Ritararita]

In Czech, the difference is made by only one letter - we call Slovakia Slovensko, while Slovenia is Slovinsko. Both words are derived from "Slované" ("Slavics").

Personally, I am much more upset whenever somebody confuses Czech Republic with Chechnya (aka Chechen Republic). It happens more often than one could expect.

 

[strupberry]

Btw,
many people often confuse Slovenia with Slovakia. Not only their names, but also their flags are similar.
Is that a coincidence or something connects these two countries ?

it's "coincidental"... we both have common Slavic ancestors, but other than that we don't have any significant ties that would explain the similarities.
old Slavs called themselves Slovan = "a man whose words I understand" and when the tribes spread around, we both kept the naming.
here's more about the Slovenia/Slovakia etymology

linguistically, Slovenes still understand other South Slavs relatively well, but between us and West Slavs (Cz, Sk, Pl), there needs to be a lot of hand gesturing (or alcohol) involved to understand each other at least a bit.

flags both use the pan-slavic colors, red-white-blue and once again it was just the coincidence (or lack of originality) that both nations ended up with almost the same one.. we aren't completely happy with our flag and the process of changing it has been started before, but never came anywhere close to completing it, cause we can't really agree on what to change it into

Don't the ambassadors for each country from each country meet up once a month to exchange misaddressed mail?

no, they only joked about it but the main post offices do receive wrong mail on a daily basis...
I used to send & receive postcards through the Postcrossing project and a couple of times I also had the marking from Bratislava on my received card the address was written correctly, it was just the sorting people/machines that didn't do their job properly... god knows how often my mail made a detour without me even knowing...

 

[EscGeek]

Slovenes aren't completely happy with our flag and the process of changing it has been started before, but never came anywhere close to completing it, cause we can't really agree on what to change it into

It's simple...first we need to enlarge the coat of arms,and move it to the center
then we need to get rid of red color in order to replace it with green
white stays on top,representing the montians,blue goes on the bottom and represents sea,that means there's a place for green in the middle representing the forests and fields

(not to mention all of our sportsmen wear either white,green or blue)

 

[lavieenrose]

No headphones 2/10

 

[EscGeek]

i used microsoft paint...i don't have photoshop

 

[GermanBango]

It's in my head xshifty

 

[strupberry]

I wouldn't mind the green version but people from Maribor be all like: http://i.imgur.com/wv1veZ2.jpg
(explanation for non-Slovenes: green is also Ljubljana's color and many people from the 2nd biggest ("rival") city tend to get really touchy if they feel things related to Ljubljana are being adopted on a national level)

there's also this funny thing whenever journalists/web designers use a wrong country code and display Sierra Leone (.sl)

icon instead of (.si) and almost everybody goes "oooh I wish"

 

[EscGeek]

here's one example from video2mp3.net

 

[Musicosity]

The flag actually looks nice. The color combination makes it very distinct among the flags of Europe. Green is such an underrated color.

Btw. I found a webpage about the possible flag change mentioned above. Looking at the "awarded designs" I am not surprised there was no official decision yet. Very ... well, see for yourself. Tbh I think ESCGeek's proposal is definitely better.

(And no doubt they will consider the headphones if Maraaya wins. )

 

[tuorem]

Talking about confusion between Slovakia and Slovenia, did you know there was a country called Slovekia? That's how some people I know refer to Slovakia, I'm unsure about whether they're aware of Slovenia's existence

 

[DanielLuis]

Well one way for Slovenia to get more renowned would be if they win Eurovision this year and host it in 2016, so let's make it happen! I certainly wouldn't mind

 

[Lupus]

Sounds like a plan...

 

[Musicosity]

Well one way for Slovenia to get more renowned would be if they win Eurovision this year and host it in 2016, so let's make it happen! I certainly wouldn't mind

... staging, staging, staging ...

 

[Skywalker]

here's one example from video2mp3.net

You don't have to look far for examples. Even ESCUnited uses the Sierra Leone flag to represent Slovenia in their listing of 2015 ESC participants.

A couple of weeks ago I sent them a message about this mistake through the Web Contact Form. But I guess the form isn't working properly and my message somehow got lost...

 

[EscGeek]

your message hasn't arrived yet because you are using Internet Explorer

 

[Chorizo]

Well one way for Slovenia to get more renowned would be if they win Eurovision this year and host it in 2016, so let's make it happen! I certainly wouldn't mind

The perfect follow-up to Austr(al)ia from this year.

 

[CatEye]

Well one way for Slovenia to get more renowned would be if they win Eurovision this year and host it in 2016, so let's make it happen! I certainly wouldn't mind

It won't come even close to that(and I also have doubts about our qualification), but considering the state in which our country is in right now, we so or so couldn't afford ESC, unless they tone it down, so that it's no longer that over-the-top and way less expensive. I always prefered the way it was in the past, way less gimmicky and more about the songs, unlike the last few years, which gave me the feeling that hosting ESC seems more and more about showing off.
However it seems, that ESC 2016 won't be far from Slovenia.

And in case a miracle does happen and Slovenia wins, then I'll do a danijela impression about the victory and the whole ESC year.