Why do so many Bulgarians on this page consider themselves ethnically slavic?

[Varda]

What are you talking about? Polish hooligans came and trashed and burned entire one neighbourhood of Zagreb.
Of course they defended their city from drunken and aggresive Polaks, in ski masks and with baseball bats.

Who were all deported from Croatia afterwards.

Keep quiet as you have no idea what are you talking about. These Polacks are notorious trash.

You wrote posts to Skotnik (Stears) which are on so called Croatian, is not it? You have his password and sometimes you wrote instead of him on Croatian, because he know only Magyar and English to some degree. You help him not to be discovered by the Loki.

[Jana]

You wrote posts to Skotnik (Stears) which are on so called Croatian, is not it? You have his password and sometimes you wrote instead of him on Croatian, because he know only Magyar and English to some degree. You help him not to be discovered by the Loki.

Nope. But you did activate your old Pribislav account to thumb him down. Very interesting...

[Varda]

Nope. But you did activate your old Pribislav account to thumb him down. Very interesting...

I have nothing against that my old account be deleted. Do not deviate from the topic - sock of Stears which you protect!

[Varda]

Racism, anti-Orthodox attitudes, glorification of western (Catholic and Protestant) civilization etc. by Skotnik is Stears behavior. Even his age match with Stears.

[rothaer]

Old Church Slavic was created by Cyril and Methodius, two Greeks, who spoke Slavic in local dialect of Sołuń, which is not even a part of Bulgaria. At that time, there was no distinct slavic languages - Poles with Russians were speaking normaly, and for linguists at the time it was one folk, one language, one land until XII century (as you can read in XIIth century chronicles). Even in XVII century there are descriptions which consider Polish, Russian, Czech and Croat almost as one and the same, and Ruthenian as Polish written in cyrillic). The more in IXth century there was one common slavic language, with thousands of local village variations - very tiny variations.

It should be also remembered, that this language was made not for Bulgaria, or any other south slavic land, even neither for Macedonia (where he originated) but for MORAVIA. Cyryl, Methodius and their disciples, when they came to Moravia and where presenting slavic texts, they were fully understood by Moravians, and this language was practicaly sculpted there. Then they moved to East Slavs and were fully understood by them also, and this was the place, where Church Slavonic achieved the best form and had the best years, being finally standarized and in such form spreaded to the south.

Btw, when you compare Bulgarian and Old Church Slavonic, then OCS is much more Old Polish, than Old Bulgarian. It was just a common slavic tounge at the time, Bulgarian didn't exist as separate language, so, saying, that it is Old Bulgarian is just a wishfull thinking. The dialect on which was based, do not exists at all today, and OCS has no living continuation, as it was a liturgical language by the most part of existance.

I can not judge intra-Slavic details. But if OCS was based on Slavic dialects from the Thessaloniki surroundings, it could be expected to be most close to that living Slavic language that is geographically closest. At least in the past. So a linguistic proximity to Old Bulgarian seems to me more likely than a proximity to Old Kashubian f. i. Because of this and also because of that the Slavs in the Greek part of Makedonia for quite a while were called Bulgarians (by themself, but also by some others) it seems legitimate to here use the label Old Bulgarian.

At the end of the day it's a question of convention. If all agree on to call it banana, then banana is applicale.

[Psycho]

I feel Thracian-Turkic mix myself by DNA, but Slavic by language and partly culture.
I am new member btw