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Re:The Great Language Game: How many languages can you disti... by bojan on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @07:23AM (#6320264)
I, as a native Serbian speaker, have a 100% understanding of what is being said on Croatian national TV, and 100% understanding when reading websites in Croatian.

While the difference exists, calling it significant is just... untrue. For non-speakers, it is barely noticeable.

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Re:The Great Language Game: How many languages can you disti... by mutation on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:43AM (#6320547)
I have probably the same understanding of serbian. I used to read a lot of science fiction literature translated into it. Not to mention that I learnt cyrillic script in elementary school in the 1980's when the language was still officially called "serbo-croatian". But there are significant differences: for example serbian people don't understand kaykavian and refuse to. There are a lot of jokes on the theme in old yugoslavian tv shows. Kaykavian is part of croatian language.
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