Turns out that Vizionar/Tiwaz is the new Stewart Meadows. Who had that on their 2025 bingo card? I certainly didn't. 

@stewart-meadows Sorry brother i don't understand. That is your name??? 

Posted by: @vizionar777

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@stewart-meadows Sorry brother i don't understand. That is your name??? 

It's an American idiomatic expression that's difficult to explain to foreigners. What I mean is: on the old VNN forum I was the main and most prolific poster, I basically kept the forum alive with my huge amount of posts. However, on this new version of VNN, you have pretty much taken my place, i.e. you're the top poster here; you're keeping the forum fresh, active and alive. In that sense, you're the new Stewart Meadows because you're doing the things that I used to do on the old VNN, and that's not something that I (or anyone else, I would guess) expected. And yes, that's a good thing. It's good that you're filling up all the new empty subforums with NS texts. That's the kind of stuff we need. You're doing a good job.

@stewart-meadows

Believe me, I didn't know either!

For Vizionar's sake, I translated my previous post into Croatian (which is pretty much the same language as Serbian and Montenegrin) so that he will understand it better. There are probably some grammatical errors in the text because I'm not a native speaker. (My strongest Slavic language/dialect is Istrian, also known as istrijanski or čakavski, which I learned from my Slavic relatives in Istria that I've spent a lot of time with, although I'm mostly Italian, as I've explained before.)

Anyway, here's the post:

To je američki idiomatski izraz koji je teško objasniti strancima. Ono što želim reći je: na starom VNN forumu bio sam glavni i najplodniji korisnik, održavao sam forum živim svojom ogromnom količinom objava. Međutim, na ovoj novoj verziji VNN-a, ti si uglavnom zauzeo moje mjesto, tj. ti si glavni korisnik ovdje; održavaš forum svježim, aktivnim i živim. U tom smislu, ti si novi Stewart Meadows jer radiš stvari koje sam ja radio na starom VNN-u, a to nije nešto što sam ja (ili bilo tko drugi, pretpostavljam) očekivao. Da, to je dobra stvar. Dobro je što puniš sve nove prazne podforume NS tekstovima. To je ono što nam treba. Radiš dobar posao.

@stewart-meadows Thank you brother! I remember you from old forum and think there can be only ONE Stewart Meadows!!!

@stewart-meadows I may understand Montenegrin best due my parents where born in MNE. 

Posted by: @vizionar777

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@stewart-meadows Thank you brother! I remember you from old forum and think there can be only ONE Stewart Meadows!!!

Thank you for this kind reply, Vizionar. But just to be clear: did you understand my latest post in Croatian (despite any potential grammatical errors)? 

@stewart-meadows Well almost with out mistake.

Posted by: @vizionar777

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@stewart-meadows Well almost with out mistake.

I'm glad to hear that.

We always understood each other well

Posted by: @stewart-meadows

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Posted by: @vizionar777

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@stewart-meadows Thank you brother! I remember you from old forum and think there can be only ONE Stewart Meadows!!!

Thank you for this kind reply, Vizionar. But just to be clear: did you understand my latest post in Croatian (despite any potential grammatical errors)? 

 

Yes, it is clearly understandable but I wouldn't call it "Croatian" just like you wouldn't call your English as "Canadian".

Posted by: @dominus

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Yes, it is clearly understandable but I wouldn't call it "Croatian" just like you wouldn't call your English as "Canadian".

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this comment.