Re: Breakfast in London?



Carole Allen wrote:

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:43:06 +0000, The Reid
<dontuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



I want to know Serbo Croat for Don Jewan.


carolea7@xxxxxxxxxxx (Carole Allen) writes:

Serbian and Croatian are two separate languages 


On 14 Dec 2005 09:00:50 +0000, Des Small <vonbladet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:>New-fangled micro-nationalismes aside, I still have a bunch of
books

on Serbo-Croat(ian).  But if you're buying into this, is it that
Bosnian and Montenegran are separate langwidges too?

Des 


No idea re: Bosnian and Montenegren, but you must know that Serbian
uses the Cyrillic alphabet, while Croatian does not.  So while they
may understand the spoken word, unless one reads two alphabets, that's
where communicaiton stops.  I've just begun studying Croatian, and
while I took Russian many years ago and can read the Cyrillic alphabet
(though most of the Russian vocabulary has long deserted me), there
are some differences between the two languages.  Our instructor was
raised in Dubrovnik and attended university in Sarajevo, and she says
when in Sarajevo people tell her she talks like a Dalmatian, and when
in Dubrovnik they tell her she speaks like a Bosnian.  And now that
she lives in the states, when she goes home they accuse her of
speaking like an American!


Dialect differences do not a language make. In fact, apparently, serious vocabulary differences do not make for a different language. All I can remember is that the Slavic Languages department offered courses in Serbo-Croatian.

My suspicion is that the distinction is both modern and political.

.

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