That's all great. Nobody said anything about dictionaries. I just stated
that some people might have harder time properly understanding each and
every word.
And by the way, I don't think that you should be the one to judge here.
You don't claim to be neither a Bosnian, nor Serb, nor a Croat, and you
play a major role in SH wiki, which all leads me to believe that you're
biased when talking about these languages. Kudos to you for being able
to comprehend everything and actually not being able to tell the
difference between two obviously different languages, but you are a rare
specimen.
And regarding that Bosnian producer, I'm sure he "adjusted" his choice
of words for the occasion. You don't wanna feel unwelcome and
misunderstood when you're being a guest at a friendly party, now do you?
The difference is not that big a deal, as is the political connotation
every "foreigner" forgets to bare in mind. Like Millosh said, there
would be no community, should the 4 pedias merge. Hence, since there are
3 wikipedias that basically substitute the Serbocroatian one, the need
for the latter has become inexistent.
Cheers! :)
Dejan Cabrilo wrote:
They differ in
reading as well as they differ in comprension. Let me
give you an example: My friend went to Bosnia to see her relatives (she
goes anually). When she returned from Bosnia, she was overwhelmed by the
fact that she learned so many new words. Bosnian is constantly being
under influence of Muslims and there you go. I'm afraid I won't
understand them should I ever go there. Another example is the fact that
according to my unofficial survey, most of the people my age (18 or so,
which is an important age group) and some of the other ages don't
actually know the names of the months in Croatian.
True that many people don't know Croatian words for months. That's why
in casual conversation, we either use international names or just
number them.
Funny you should say that Bosnian is hard to understand. Few weeks
ago, a Bosnian film "Go West" was shown in Belgrade, and it's producer
Ahmed Imamović was a guest on Belgrade radio station B92. Of course,
the film was not subtitled Bosnian->Serbian. They assumed everyone in
Belgrade can understand Bosnian.
Imamović is from Sarajevo, he talked about the film, listeners were
calling in and talking to him. There was no trouble in understanding
at all. I listened to all of it, so it was part Bosnian, part Serbian,
and I understood it all.
Also, just this morning, over my tea, I was reading Croatian weekly
Feral Tribune (
http://feral.mediaturtle.com/), and among other
articles, which were all writen in Croatian, I read this:
http://feral.mediaturtle.com/look/weekly1/article.tpl?IdLanguage=7&IdPu…
article by Petar Luković, who is writing in Serbian (if I am not
mistaken, he is from Serbia and lives there). I read most of this
edition of Feral Tribune, and I understood both stuff in Croatian, and
stuff written by the Serbian author. If Luković was not writing about
politics in Serbia, I would probably never notice that I am reading
two oh so different languages.
Some time ago, in Serbian daily Danas (
www.danas.co.yu), which
unfortunately doesn't keep archives from more than few days, I read an
article from Croatian Novi List (
http://www.novilist.hr/), which was
in its original form, so - Croatian. Iirc (they often use Novi List's
articles), this one was regarding arrest of Ante Gotovina.
And just moments ago, I wanted to check the result of basketball game between
Partizan (Serbia) and Bosna ASA BHT (Bosnia), so I went to
http://goodyear.adriaticbasket.com/. I wanted to get details of the
game, as I am a fan and couldn't watch it, so I went to their
discussion forum topic:
http://forum.adriaticbasket.net/viewtopic.php?t=4794
... where fans of both Bosna and Partizan were commenting the game as
it was progressing - with usual fan teasing (ok, teasing is a weak
word). Nobody called for a dictionary.
Cheers,
Dejan
P.S. Partizan won, if anyone cares.
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