On Thursday 14 April 2005 01:19, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:55:14PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
While I recognize that there are long established traditions favouring the two script approach to Serbian, I think that the ekavian/iyekavian distinction is going too far. It makes the idea of a single Serbian
is that difference only with the letter "e"? If yes, why can't it be decided that some people pronounce it as "je" (like they do in Russian, they just write "е" and not "йе") and some other people pronounce it as "e", and keep a single way of writting?
or the other way around, always write the "j", but some people not pronounce it.
No, unfortunately, there are numerous es and jes which are same in both dialects. This is explained nicely in [[Serbo-Croatian language]] (at least, it was the last time I've checked).
having two different writting systems just for that (which means four different writting systemns in total) seems unjustified;
Actually, there are only two writing systems, but as they are phonetic, same words are written differently because people are telling them differently.