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Re:What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019) by c2xlZXB5Cg on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:43PM (#24982600)
The way you say "coffee" while understood by all sides, embeds enough information to determine your ethnicity/religion/nationality/place of birth and is weaponized for political use.

The truth is, people understand each other just fine. Pushing for giving a name to "the common language" or enumerating how many "different languages" exist has little to do with linguistics.

Re:What language do people speak in the Balkans, anyway? (2019) by flobosg on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:16PM (#24982922)
> The way you say "coffee" while understood by all sides, embeds enough information to determine your ethnicity/religion/nationality/place of birth

This is also true, to an extent, for words meaning "tea".

https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land...