Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet domain outlives the nation

Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by OfSanguineFire on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:33PM (#38042879)

I wrote BCMS in my original post because it saves me the most trouble. If I say "Serbo-Croatian", a lot of people bristle at that. As a foreigner, I can't say "naški". And if I name the specific variety that I learned years ago when I had to buy a textbook, people might accuse me of having political sympathies with that country. (I get a lot of grief from people about this when I am in the region: "as a foreigner, why did you choose to speak with vocabulary typical of that country and not our country?").

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by malermeister on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:50PM (#38043088)

I understand where you're coming from. I'd love if we could just call it the Yugoslav Language, or Yugoslavian, but that might just be me :-)

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by jakupovic on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:30PM (#38044247)

You're trying and that is respectable. People that do "govore po našem" or speak ours can and do often push their version most suited for their aims. Notice there is no "nas" or us in that version.

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