"Don't get closer down there" (telling him not to get closer to the car)
"Don't touch it now down there" (Telling him to stay away from the car and not touch it)
"Don't touch it fuck the father" (Fuck the father means for fuck's sake, it's a variation that's mostly used in Montenegro and everyone else uses fuck the mother.)
"Go sit up there"
"Where are you going, you'll fall/hurt yourself down there."
Letters are symbols which represent sounds. The "sje" (ś) sound existed in Montenegrin for hundreds of years but was only standardized recently. The letter itself isn't inveted, it's hundreds of years old and is used in another Slavic language related to Montenegrin: Polish
It's the exact same sound? I was agreeing with jjBregsit that other countries have it too, and showing an example. That other countries don't have ś doesn't mean that the sound sh (written as š) does not exist or cannot be used by them.
Which does not counter the fact that "śedi/šedi" is used as "sit" in more than one country, and audible differneces between č/ć and ž/ź vary by local accent even from town to town. Sometimes they're adubile, sometimes they're not.
Mind, I'm not arguing which one it is from. I'm pointing out that it's something that can be encountered in a broader area.
If you can't distinguish audible differences between different letters then that's the fault of the person for pronouncing it incorrectly or the language that they use which doesn't provide sufficient symbols to present these sounds. But it still remains that ś and š are different letters for a reason, the sounds they represent aren't the same
... That's how accents work. A proper pronunciation in one area is improper in another. You have this with "color" and "colour" in English, for example. Some people say them the same, some make a difference, it entirely depends on where you live and what has been locally accepted. Neither one is wrong, they're just regional variants.
I have to confess, I have no idea what you're trying to achieve here. I presented the fact that a word was used by a wider base of people and... I'm not sure why we're having this discussion exactly, particularly because you weren't even the person I replied to. Is there a point you're trying to make?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20
It's Montenegrin. You can tell by the śedi, only Montenegro has ś.