>>I know you were talking to Metin about the hooch, but replying to Mike. I thought last thing he needs is your discussing a drink he's probably never had whilst congratulating him on (possibly - who knows?) getting on the waggon.
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>The raki - rakija - brandy (in Turkish, Serbian and English) is a nasty thing, and you don't want to drink one made by someone you don't know personally. I still have a few bottles of my father's excellent moonshine, and they are gathering dust somewhere in the corner.
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>>BTW In England we call it "physiotherapy", just as the "gas man" in an operation is the "anaesthetist" as opposed to the US "anasthaesiologist" (sp?)
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>In Serbian, "anestetičar" and "anesteziolog" would be completely different things: one is the guys who does Anastasia, and the other theorises about it.

I take it then that Tsar Nick II didn't know what was going on?

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>This slapping of additional suffixes seems to be quite common here. We say "cinizam", and it's "cynicism" here. Go figure.