conkratulations! welcome to my country :) ieliec lacz veel to liiko reklaamklipu par LV :)

Vai tik peace vietaa nebija domaats piece????

Kuuuuuuul :) It iipash par to tjipo pretending cillvekiem itkaa buut paziistamiem ar laacz.

i would say: fair enough

PIECE of information! neapkauno muus.

gygy es gribu apkaunot sevi un tikai sevi. jaapieraksta mosh teksts, ka viss kauns neattiecaas uz visu latvieshu tautu? :) ok, scha izlaboshu

pieraxti arii p.s. :)

Nu jaa ja jau Fabriku skataas ASV, kaapeec lai ar laacz.lv taa nebuutu ?

Broken what?? I understand this text with no problems.

ASHyc, my english has punctuation and grammar problems :) as well as lot of typos :) that's the broken side of it :)

labs update...

Nu, bļin (piedodiet, ak jel atvainojiet). "I pee."(!!!) Uzraksti vēl, ka Tu "shit". Kretuks...

trakaak buutu, ja buutu "I pee right now"

khe khe .. :) .. tas "I pee." toch kaut kaa nevietaa .. :) .. bet taa jau tiiri neko .. vismaz aarzemniecinji sapratiis ap ko lieta grozaas .. ;)

"I pee" un "I am male" vareeja apvienot kaa "I pee standing" :)

manupraat, tas pee, taapeec, ka vinjsh arii ir normaals, tipa taadi kaa visi citi

"I code for food."

:))))))) 10/10

Smejmoon - codes for food and fun :P

I couldn't understand latvian but this site including very nice links... sugar horses band travelling around the world...

Respected Laacz project of the horses singers is extraordinary and it would like a lot to have the music in separate and the drawing in separate in format gif to install in my computer, my family adored but the internet is slow in my city calls TUPA that is inside the parents called BRAZIL.
Can you order for me?
Thank you and success in their projects
Prof. Sérgio D. Lopes

sergiodl@terra.com.br

nabaga profesors nesaprot, kā var nokačāt .swf failus, un īstenībā tas nemaz nav laacz projekts... un nedomāju arī, ka laacz pat pirkstu pakustinās, lai izpildītu augstākminētajā vēstulītē pildītās darbības :)

HI!

Very nice. I didn't know your country at least by name until now. I'm from Brazil.

A lot of people from here are receveing that message with the four horses singing and enjoying. It's very cute.

Hope you continue doing such nice things and spreading your country culture around the internet.

See ya!

nu pisec, laacz ar aizguutiem zirgiem popularizee (ceru, ka pareizi uzrakstiiju) Latviju. Dajosh triis graudu ordeni laacim.

Baigie nemieri panesiisies pa visu pasauli un komentos, kad zviedri saaks bljaut, ka tie ir vinju zirgi... Umm...

ww3

This is message for laacz. Can you send me links(to this site) to flash movies or may be short english map of site with links cause I dont know Latvian but i interested in your site. If you would do it please send it to my e-mail(Zelenkov_k@mail.ru).

Katoku, try searching for text ".swf": http://laacz.lv/?txt=.swf

Thanks

Hi!! I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and I've received your link from a friend .. Its great!!! All my friends enjoyed the horses singers !!!

By the way, are you sure Latvia is a country? I cant find it in the maps... :-(

My best regards !!!

Yes, i am pretty sure. I live there :)

oh, by the way, where is the Brasil? :)

Brasil? I heard they have pretty good coffey, and even better ice hockey team. But have they ever heard about soccer? Dont think so. :) And by all means you need a new map!!!

Visjaukaakaa komentaaru seerija, kas jebkad she redzeeta. Man taa patiik tie braziilieshi ka gribas visus sabuchot.

nu baac... kur taa Magda kartes njeemusi, ja nevar Latviju atrast? pashziimeetaas?... btw, pasmiineeju par vienu lietu: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/lg.html ir kaut kaada CIA informaacija par Latviju, un tur pie valsts platiibas saliidzinaajuma ieraxc: "slightly larger than West Virginia" :) amiishi domaa savaa liimenii...

Hi All !!!

Sorry .. but I still cant find your country in my maps :-) ... but I'm still looking for :) I will find it!!

hehehehe Soccer .. Oh yes !! We are the world Campion :-) Don't be so sad, we will enjoy to teach you about it :-)

"es ir es" and "Kaaposc" sorry, so sorry but I can't understand you !! :-(

but I will visit the site you(Kaaposc) put here. Thanks !!!

regards to all

Hi there!!.

I'm a braziliam to, and despite my colleagues I known a lot about Latvia, and a realy want to visit you soon.

Best regards

Barts.

that's cool Barts. only thing - if you are going to visit LV shortly you have to buy a warm warm coat as this week there are about -5 degrees C. peace!

btw tieshaam diivaini, ka zviedri nekaadi nereagjee ;) tam vareetu butu vairaaki izskaidrojumi: vai nu vinjiem tik tieshaam ir po vai arii... vinji slepeniibaa plaano atentaatu pret laacz... beware, puukainais ;P

nu atslaabsti - taas copuraits zviedriem na liekas nau tik svariigas - gan jau ka tas cilveeks pac priecaajas ka vinja fleshish taa staigaa pa pasauliiti! piiiss!!

nav jau laacz vieniigais, kas savaa lapaa ielicis zirdzinjus vaig tikai google singing horses pamekleet un kaudze atrodaas

gan jau zviedriem ir cits ko dariit kaa par savu zirgu kopiiraitu uztraukties

tieshi taa tieshi taa :)))

jeeee ozeo eles:))))

Hi!

I'm Frank, French but living in the Caribbean for the last 5 years. Im 29 years old and heard of your site by a 64 friend I first met while playing backgammon on yahoo games.....

I had never heard of Latvia before and even didn't find it in my current dictionnary.......

I'd love lo learn a bit more about your country and understand why I can't find it on any maps..... I don't mean that you have invented or imagined Latvia, but I would enjoy to know how a country surrounded by others has had the chance not to be the target of the interest of other civilisations, which could have spoiled a quiet environment..... I don't think Latvia is a lost land but maybe a preserved and small piece of land where Humanity could have hidden its vital roots....

One never knows, there may be an unknown paradise on this earth.... Why not!?

As you can see I'm quite hopeful despite these cruel experiences that our world has to go through because of the misunderstanding and intolerance of many individuals, who voluntarily prefer to care of their own interests and keep their whole and precious not-deserved priviledges.

Please just let me know a little bit more about your country so as to make my hopes come possible or at least imaginable because I can't accept that this utopian and restless imagination which haunts my soul could only be the result of my naivety and stupidity. (Anyway I DO NOT feel naive and/or stupid when hoping that peace could be the unique and sacred law for everyone! Do you think I am?)

I deeply hope to receive a trail of light from you..... If Latvia is still unknown and likely to remind the human siprit of humanity, then do your best to preserve it and keep it hidden until humanity is ready.... I am not able to say when it will be..... humanity has nothing reliable at the moment and only the future will tell.....

However, anything that can be done to make people realize and open their eyes on the way the world is dangerously deviating HAS to be done even through a simple website like the one you've created about your country Latvia. I guess that your motivation to let people hear of Latvia has some reasons, and your text on the homepage clearly shows how attached you are to your country and even a certain selfishness in talking and revealing to your readers the existence of a still unknown place which you finally keep secret and mysterious...... in hidding details about its history

I would greatly appreciate if you accepted to answer these questions (and please make sure that my attention is not to offend you anyhow) :

• Why did you decide to create a website about Latvia, this unknown land, which is not indicated on any maps?
• Why this land is not indicated on maps?
• What kind of reaction you expect from people in learning the misterious existence of a land that that anyone had never heard of?

Thanks in advance for your reply. Look forward to read you... Still hopeful whatever you reply...... naive and stupid, maybe!...... determinated... surely!

Sincerely!

Franky_sbh

Hi again!

It's Franky again!!! I'd like to apologize for my ignorance and insistance on Latvia's mysterious existence which both show a lack in my general culture.....

I just made a research on google and found a few sites which informed me a little bit about Latvia.....

However, I am convinced that Latvia must something something quite special to preserve it that much from the media and and the presumed civilised countries.

What I learned about Latvia through public accessing website do not change the hopes I sincerely revealed for Humanity and I still would like to get the answers to tyhe questions I asked previously.

Sincerely and looking to read you.....

Franky (maybe too hopeful..... maybe not, who knows!?)

i am truly shocked, Franky :) but i will create some description of location of my misterious conuntry and brief description of it :)

I guess, we were not the ones who invented this country. Those were other people many many many years ago.

Franky, try a little harder! I'm sure you WILL find some more information about our misterious country! :)

Franky, slight update. http://laacz.lv/eng/

Njaa, cilveeki meklee sapnju zemi.... Tas laikam nekad nebeigsies.

Out country is not .. should be: Our country is not ..

Tas, ka vini neatpazīst un nekad nav dzirdējuši par zemi Latvia ir ļoti vienkārši - lielakajā daļā latino valodu saimē Latvijas nosaukums labakajā gadījumā ir Lettonia vai kāds cits nosaukums, kurš sākas ar Lett nevis Lat. Atceramies, ka lielākā pasaules daļa tomēr runā spāniski, portugāliski, franciski, itāliski un vēl vis kaut kā tikai ne angliski.

Dear Franky

Latvia become independent from URSS in 1991, and have changed its name from Letonia to Latvia.

Barts Brazil

Dear Franky

Latvia became independent from URSS in 1991, and have changed its name from Letonia to Latvia.

Barts Brazil

Barts, it's not true. We haven't changed anything. It's just like in French they call Germany (Deutschland) - Alemagne. It's dependent on language you are talking in :)

Thank you !!!!

I apologize for my ignorance!!!

Bye

Redz cik jauki viss atrisinājās!

To Barts:

In Brazil are some little towns Where Latvians are more than 50 %. There is river Gauja (latvian men found it in the jungle) and town Riga - just like capital of Latvia.

Latvian - Latvija French - Lettonie English - Latvia German - Lettland

and so on and so forth ..

in your "neighbourhood" you could find: Rio Gauja, Rio Daugava, Rio Venta .. named after rivers of Latvia :))

Tagad uz sitiena nevaru atcerēties kura, bet ir Brazilijā pilsēta, kur centra ielas ir latviešu cilvēku vai varoņu vārdos, latviešu draudze un vēl kaut kas. Tie pa lielakājai daļai 1905. gada bēgļi, kas to pilsētu bija uzbūvējuši un atnesuši eiropeisku kultūru un darba tikumu, ilgus gadus bija vietējo varas struktūru priekšgalā. Kad esto plsētu atcerēšos tad noteikti pateikšu brazīļiem, jo tur ķipa muzejs esot.

Hi Lieladmirālis

Thank you about your information.

There is a beautiful page that explain the imigration of Latvians in Brazil.

http://www.maringa.com/varpa/index.htm

Regards

Barts Brazil

Laacz,

Great site. Would love to visit Latvia and see the wonderful scenery, people, and food.

Based here in Texas we have our share of scenery, people and food -- albeit a little too Redneck at times. In a few years some Friends and I plan to visit Northwestern Europe in order to see some great progressive rock acts like Transatlantic, Flower Kings, Marillion, Arjen Lucassen and others -- So be careful for what you wish on people visiting

You may end up with a flood of Fat American Tourists -- LOL

Laacz -- I'll spend more time on your site soon, but I just wanted you to know that there are Americans who have heard of your country, have known about it for many years, and respect you for your spirit through your sometimes difficult history. Your freedom at the breakup of the Soviet Union was one of the best results that came from that revolution.

Since my husband has an Internet friend in Riga, it is on our list of places to visit next time we cross the ocean.

To those who critique typos and the selection of homonyms, next time please write your message in perfect Latvian.

Vai kāds man nepaskaidrotu ko nozīmē LOL?

Lots of lough == LOL

es vienmeer biju domaajis, ka LOL ir "laughing out loud" ??

We are in receipt of your "messages". Your English, by the way, is excellent. 'Certainly no reason for apology. We enjoyed the singing horses very much until we played the sound backwards. They are singing a Satanic verse and we feel this is very wrong. Of course, only Jesus as one of the Holy Trinity can judge you.
Regarding "Latvia", we find your allegation that "Latvia" is a country quite amusing. If it is a "country", why does it turn up on different continents in different centuries? The first recorded mention of "Latvia" (Latvitanusdon) appears in the writings of Pliny. Latvitanusdon was a subsidiary kingdom of the the Zelts, who were perilously under the rule of the Roman General Gerardius I. This kingdom, or fifedom to be more realistic, was located on the border of the Eastern Kingdoms, in parts of what is now modern Turkey.
The next record of "Latvia" (Latviatonos) was found in the writings of the world's oldest Christian Church. the Coptics of Ethiopia. They referred to Latviatonos as a heathan land where people so bereft of any decency that they subscribed neither to Christianity nor to the African animist beliefs could find refuge. These writing located Latviatonos just South and West of Ethiopia. More modern texts locate "Latvia" in Central Europe, Central Africa, and in the mountainous regions of Central Asia. So, you see, your assertions that there is really a "Latvia" and that it has historically occupied only one location on the planet are laughably untrue.
The best evidence I can find of a place called "Latvia" is in Jane's Book of Submarine Warfare, in which there is mention of a WWII German submarine being beached on the Island of Santo Latvia in the Caribbean Ocean. It's a very convincing ruse, but educated people the world over will certainly discover that "Latvia" lives only in the imagination of spaced- out dwellers of the wild wastelands along the Baltic Sea. Your "Latvian" language is very convincing. 'Sort of a Finno-Hungarian + E. European vulgate goulash. 'Very clever, though. Well, the Satanic Horses are very clever and they evidence great programming skills. We hope that, someday, you reveal your true nationality and language. Sincerely, The Institute. PS: Don't feel badly, we have a "nonexistent state" in the USA. It's even shown on many maps. It's usually referred to as "Nebraska" and is usually located North of Kansas and just south of our Canadian border states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, N. Dakota, Montana, etc.). People have even made up a legend about cities in "Nebraska", like "Lincoln" and "Omaha". There are people who swear that they have driven through "Nebraska" on their way from Iowa to S. Dakota. We can only humor them, for they are clearly delusional. We think that some persons, when feeling totally overwhelmed, make up elaborate "other worlds" in their minds. This gives them a sense of order and control in what they would otherwise think of as a chaotic and threatening world. Not that we are accusing you of such fantasies. We are sure that this "Latvia" thing is just an elaborate joke. A pretty clever one at that! Keep up the good work, you "Latvian guy", you!

Oups... That means, that I and my counry is imagination:) Our great wariors in histry, our culture, our language... That is wery intresting. :)

Sou why I have to pay taxes to contry, that dount exist.

lol .. don't forget that the money you pay is still the imagination .. :)) .. and the taxes are imagination as well .. :) .. sounds like the X-Files .. "The truth is out there.."

Yeah, and would that guy ever try to take a look at a map somewhere around the region of Northern Europe? And what does "finno-hungarian" mean? As far as I'mconcerned, and I'm pretty sure than Finnish have had absolutely no connection to Magyar countries :) I guess, some people never learn... Nu kur tie amerikāņi var būt tik stulbi?

I'm writing with my Latvian (seldom used) IRC nick just to say that your English site is good, far better than the writing of many Latvians who think they speak and write English. I am very new to this blog business. I set one up yesterday (Christmas Eve day) out of boredom. It is called Ravings From Latvia and is on the blogger site, blogspot.com or something. Ar latvieshu burtiem te nerakstaas, bet tas var buut taadeelj, ka lietoju Macintosh iBook ar MacOSX. Nelsliks saits, vispaar. Kaa jau rakstiiju angliski, pats saaku aiz gara laika blogot.

Prieciigus Ziemassveetkus visiem.

:D laa: "Schutzemann et al. (#10743)" ir pelnījis apgāzto klaunu :P (great post by the way)

Finno-Ugric languages are no Indo-European so they are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (Monty Python) from English, Latvian, Spanish, Portugeese ..

Most widespoken languages are: Finnish, Ungarian(though they are realy far branch), Estonian and various Saami languages.

Latvian is pretty ancient looking (though it's rather new) language from Baltic branch of Indoeuropean family. It has influences from Northern neighbours, but they don't go further than stress on first sylable and borrowing of dozen words.

But the post of "Schutzemann et al. (#10743)" was realy entertaining. Irony, Laughter and Teasing is Smej in my nickname :)

please use spelling corrections if neccesary: "are not", "well then", "Hungarian", "and so on and so forth" :p

nu ka galiu pasakyt? lopai jus latviai. vistiek mes valdom. LT rulezzzz.

I see that you all dont know that latvian language is very similar to lithuanian. We (latvians and lithuanians) are balts. Our history is common. our languages are common. and all estonians hungarians or finns has nothin' common with us. Yours sincerrely LT

Respect to laacz from Lietuva. As I imagine comments like franky's really should drive you crazy. But I think it just shows that most of europeans (not mentioning the rest of the world) has no idea of our region. So keep working and enlightning people. :)

fuu, nu vismaz braalji lietuvieshi ir informeeti par to, kas atrodas jamiem ziemeljos. :)

Hy, i'm from Lithuania, our languages (latvian and lithunian) are very similar, as i read latvian text i can understand almost every word in the sentence... People like franky drives me crazy, because there are lots of people who think about Lithuania as franky about Latvia

Nu dar lietuviu nepaduos?? Kas ateis visi aisq per delfi :)

Heh, Vaina, I once saw a dictionary with about 400 words wich sound very similar in our languages, but have different meanings. The classical example being Lithuanian 'alnis' and 'briedis' meaning 'briedis' and 'alnis' in Latvian :)

I was in school in 1950 at the Universith of Oklahoma with an Architecture Student by the name of Ziggard Zaren. He was from Latvia. Cheers!!!

Zigurds Zariņš droshvien tas ir bijis :D

I understand none of this page, I was wondering if anybody knew of a translation site where i can translate this page into English. It's interesting, but I'm just a girl!

this might help a little - http://dictionary.tilde.lv/English/default1.htm ;)

Ziggard Stardest arī bija Zigurds Stardeķis, bet ja nopietni iečekojat Zemiti un viņa ģitāras.

Letonia is Latvia and Latvia is Letonia in portuguese ?!?!

Now it's clear to me !!!!! Letonia I know and I can find in my map !! :-)

Thanks a lot Bart !!!!

by the way Bart, how do you know Latvia as Latvia and not as Letonia as almost in Brazil?

my best regards, Magda

Dear Magda

I have some maps in english, and I just compare its.

Where you from Magda?

Regards

Barts

Oi Bart,

hahaha now I can write in portuguese :-)

Eu sou do Rio de Janeiro e você?

ok, ok, I will be nice :-) It means "I'm from Rio de Janeiro, and you?"

regards, beijos, Magda

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