tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post8692237007574092040..comments2023-10-28T05:02:10.442-04:00Comments on Americans For Bosnia: "Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide" by Branimir Anzulovic [6]Kirk Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-9052233294520022772008-06-02T15:54:00.000-04:002008-06-02T15:54:00.000-04:00Quote: "Modern Pan-Serbism emerged as a result of ...Quote: "Modern Pan-Serbism emerged as a result of the Romantic ideal that vernacular language is the main criterion for the identity of a nation, combined with the thesis that all stokavian dialects are Serbian."<BR/><BR/><BR/>That is correct. The first dictionary of the Bosnian language was published 200 years before the first dictionary of the Serbian language.<BR/><BR/>In Ex-Yugoslavia, they used to teach us that we speak Serbo-Croatian incorrectly, because we used Bosnian words... and those words were "incorrect" by their standards. For example, the Bosnian language word for "last year" is "LANI", and Serbians say "prosle godine". So, for them "LANI" was a slang, because in ex-Yugoslavia, they never recognized our language.<BR/><BR/>Although Serbian and Bosnian language speakers can understand themselves perfectly, there is an obvious difference between the two language, whether one wants to admit it or not. Apart from a good chunk of words being different, Serbian dialect is also different, they don't use "ije" in their words. For example, word MILK. We say "MLIJEKO" they say "MLEKO." And we could go on and on with grammar differences, spelling differences, etc. They also use cyrillic, we use latin, etc.Srebrenica Genocidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537958649391909339noreply@blogger.com