Macedonian names and makeDonski pseudo-linguistics: The case of the name Milon

"How can the Skopians say that the ancient Macedonians were Slavic when the whole world knows that they spoke Greek and spread Greek language and civilization to Asia, and the whole world knows that the Slavs entered the Balkans a thousand years later?" is the usual question of a typical Greek.

This stance, unfortunately, assumes that "the rest of the world" knows history and is able to distinguish between historical fact and Balkan political fiction, and they will therefore reject out of hand and laugh at the Skopjan unhistorical propaganda. When we read that 35 percent of Americans believe in UFOs while another 31 percent in the existence of witches ( http://richarddawkins.net/article,1938,Poll-f... ), it becomes obvious that Skopian propaganda is not out to convince the educated ones (they have no chance there) but to mislead the uninformed.

It gets even worse when you get into Geography. Where is and what is Macedonia? I myself was asked once if Macedonia is where the macadamia nuts are grown. In a May 2002 poll by AP, one-third of Americans could not locate Louisiana on a map while one in two (48 percent) were unable to locate Mississippi, and this was in the middle of the media hype about the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Six in ten Americans when shown a map of the middle East could not locate Iraq, and almost one in two (47 percent) had no clue of where the Indian subcontinent lies on a map of Asia.

( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12591413/ ).

Assuming that the majority of people around the world have integral knowledge of ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, and that they know (or even care) when and where the Slavs came from, and that people around the world are able to distinguish between historical fact and pseudo-makedonist fiction is a very dangerous assumption. Underestimating the power of stupidity is, unfortunately, quite stupid. Politically motivated myths are dangerous, as the destructive power of the racial myths of the Nazi Party clearly demonstrated through the wholesale extermination of millions of Russians, Poles, Jews and Gypsies throughout the Nazi nightmare which these myths helped create.

If all these ignorant people saying they do not understand the Greek position proposed a solution that would not disturb the Greeks, eg. that the country in need To Be Defined (FYROM) is named Provence, Prussia, Sicily or Wales, maybe that would really make everybody happy...

Aleksandar Donski is the author of, among many others, "The Genealogical Lineage between Certain American Presidents and the Dynasty of Alexander the Great and Other Macedonian Dynasties". "The book [we are told] uncovers indisputable evidence and offers proof that no fewer than eleven U.S. presidents have been partially of ancient Macedonian ancestry: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, William Taft, Grover Cleveland, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, George Herbert Walker Bush, and the current president George Walker Bush." While we try to hold our tears of excitement and jubilation back, having just been informed that George W. Bush is a blue blooded descendant of the Makedonski dynasty of the fabled Czar of the "Proto-Slavs" Aleksandar Veliki (Alexander the Great), what will instead concern us here is the list of the ancient names that professor Aleksandar Donchevic (Donski) considers to be Slavomacedonian. Not that a list of fifty five names would prove anything about the ethnicity of any people, but since they are brought forward, we will study them in depth. We will expose each and every name on his quassi-macedonian name list to be a naive attempt at Yugo-Slavic folk etymology at best, or a south Balkan nationalist propaganda fraud emanating from FYROM at worst.

Macedonian names and makeDonski pseudo-linguistics: The case of the name Milon.
Miltiades Elia Bolaris

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