Quote from: simulacrum on February 26, 2014, 06:41:16 PM

Quote from: Kiki112 on February 25, 2014, 09:34:55 PM

quite a long survey but I solved it...

though on the language part you had an option

Srpsko-Hrvatsko (Serbo-Croatian)

I don't know what language you're talking about because that made-up language doesn't exist since the fall of communism in the 90s, I have picked OTHER as my language because I speak Croatian Wink

Thanks very much! And oh man, I know all about the sensitivities around Croation/Serbian/Serbo-Croat...but I couldn't justify listing all three of them as options without also including the Chinese dialects and various other Asian languages with tens of millions of speakers.

lol

Every single of these countries has it's own language, these are not dialects, Chinese men speak Chinese with various dialects but it's the same language, and so you can put it in

Croatian isn't a dialect and so isn't Serbian
Both are languages which our nations used since they came to these lands

Serbo-Croatian was something made-up by the Yugoslav supporters, it does not exist today
it was a failed attempt of merging a couple of completely different languages into one

If you ask a Serbian which language he's speaking he will say Serbian
If you ask a Croatian which language he's speaking he will say Croatian

Altough the Croat might speak chakavica,stokhavica or kajkavica dialect which is spoken in our capital, his language is Croatian
The same goes for Serbians

Every country has it's own language.
None of these nations speak so called "Serbo-Croatian".

A language can't just be invented, a language has to exist
To claim something first mentioned in the 9th century is a dialect of something first mentioned a 1000 years later is apsurd

For example if you put one Croatian who speaks kajkavica dialect (around every 3rd Croat speaks it along with Zagreb Cheesy

) to talk with a Serbian the poor Serbian wouldn't understand shit Cheesy

We only understand each other if we speak our standardized language, but our languages are different in so many ways..
The only thing why we understand each other is because Yugoslavia fell apart recently and we have all been tought a new language which was basically Serbian in a Serbo-Croatian disguise,
some of our words are simmilar but a lot of our words are simmilar to Russian words, does that make us Russian?
no, that's because we are a slavic nation

I live around 18 km away from Vukovar, try entering the city and tell them they speak Serbo-Croatian Cheesy