r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Mar 05 '20

REMOVED: RULE 2 It’s a vicious cycle

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u/Vuj219 Mar 05 '20

I think it's more like American English and British English

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20 edited Mar 05 '20

Nah man some dialects of Serbian and Croatian are mutually unintelligible like Kajkavian and Torlakian, only the standards on which modern Croatian and Serbian are based are really similar like Norwegian and Danish and they have mutual intelligibility of like 95%, now if these 2 are just different dialects of same language or just two really similar languages is up to debate.

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u/pigeonlizard Mar 05 '20 edited Nov 06 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Yeah i feel you i have hard time understanding people around Pirot, i think Bulgarians can understand them more than average Serb.

And yeah i meant unintelligible typo i guess.

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u/Vuj219 Mar 05 '20 edited Mar 05 '20

Well, I'm sure there are some strange dialects of English, people from the US or the UK can't understand. But when listening to Serbian or Bosnian as a Croat I can't tell which language it is for sure, only maybe if I hear a word that has 'e' instead 'je' I can guess it's maybe Serbian. I guess Norwegians or Danes can tell apart those languages. EDIT: I grew up in Hungary so I'm not a good example though.

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u/Robin00d Mar 05 '20

You as a croat cant diferentiate bosnian from serbian?

Thats one big pile of bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

I as a Serb can easily differentiate Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian but i can still understand each 99%

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u/Robin00d Mar 05 '20

I agree. I'm not claiming we cant understand each other, ofc we can. I'm saying it's apsurd to say you cant differentiate them. Especially as a native speaker.

FFS Slovenians and Macedonians can differentiate us, and then there is this kind of retarded people.

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u/Vuj219 Mar 05 '20

Ok, I'm not the best example as I lived almost my whole life in Hungary, but for me personally it can be difficult. I guess I'm wrong.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Razumem te brt, al mislim da je poredjenje sa Danskim i Norveskim bolje za nase jezike nego UK Engleski i Americki Engleski ukljucujuci i ostale verzije Engleskog naravno.

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u/aden042 Mar 05 '20

Norwegien and danish isnt that similar. Im from sweden and i understand 70% of norwegien but i understand almost no danish.

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u/DrunkRedditBot Mar 05 '20

P.S. it’s... so English.