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GRK: Blgarine, prost choveche, Shto tuk stoish, ne se grchish? Nemash ochi da ne vidish Kolku slavni se storifme? BLGARIN: A grkimu star choek, Kak ti tekna tie zboroi Da mi velish, da mi kazhvash? Ya beh slaven i prehvalen I pak sega sum Bugarin Ako sakash Bog milostiv Ke si bidam pak prehvalen. GRK: Bolgarine ne pazbervish Ya ti velyam da se uchish Grtska kniga npefalena Tukidida, Evripida Irodota i Pindara. Kak ke chinish ti bez kniga? Tvoya kniga ti si nemash Da se storish uchen choek. Ako mozhish razberi me Nauchi se grtska kniga, Da bideme site grtsi. BLGARIN: Da se ucham grtska kniga! Koy se tie shto mi kaza, Tukidida, Evripida Irodota i Pindara. Tie ne se ot nashite Ni dedo mi, ni prededo; Yazka tie ne poznavam. Ako rechesh ti za kniga Imaf kniga, pak ke imam; Ala grku ti nikoga Da ne chekash da se grcha. GRK: Ya ti davam arna uka Zashto ti sakam tvoe dobro Pak ti velyam - pogrchi se; Ako sakash ti se molam Toku sade nogrchi se. BLGARIN: Nemoy, grku, dodevay mi; Pak ti rekov pak ti velyam Razberi se, ne se grcha Ako sakash Bugari se! |
Bulgarian, simple person, Why do you wait, and not Hellenize? Don't you have eyes to see us How magnificent we've become? Hey old Greek man, How did those words occur to you, To sermonise to me, to tell me? I was glorious and famous And I'm still a Bulgarian now If you like by the grace of God I will be famous again. Bulgarian you just don't understand I am telling you to study Famous Greek literature Thucycdides, Euripides Herodotos and Pindar. How can you exist without books? Books of your own you do not have To become a learned man. If you can understand me Teach yourself with Greek literature So that we may all be Greeks. Teach myself Greek literature! Who are those you told me about, Thucycdides, Euripides Herodotos and Pindar. They are not of my people Not my grandfather, or my g.grandfather I do not know them. If you speak about books I had books and I'll have them again; But dear Greek, never Wait for me to be Hellenized. I'm giving you good advice Because I am interested in your welfare Once again I tell you - become a Greek; I you want I'll plead with you But only become a Greek. Leave me alone, Greek; I told you again and again Believe this, I'm not becoming a Greek If you like become a Bulgarian! |
"Znaeno e na Vashe rodoljubivo nastojatelstvo, oti sekoj rod sade so svojot jazik mozhit poborgo da se prosvetit, i da se sestit od drugite rodove. Znajte ushte kolku nashata strana izgubi svojot jazik, i kolku kje ostanit nazad od Gorna Bugaria na uchenieto, ako ne zavatit da se uchit na Bugarskiot jazik..." [You know, members of this patriotic board, that each nation can faster educate itself only in its own language and distinguish itself from other peoples. You also know how much our region has lost its language, and how far behind Upper Bulgaria it will fall in education if we do not get started studying the Bulgarian language...]
Signed: Kostadin Miladinov od Ohrit ("Periodichesko spisanie", v. 63 (1902-03), p. 574)
published on the Net by George Filipov