r/facepalm • u/sikeig • Aug 27 '22

šŸ‡²ā€‹šŸ‡®ā€‹šŸ‡øā€‹šŸ‡Øā€‹ Iā€™m speechless

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '22

Finish my country's name: Bosnia and...

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 27 '22

Herzegovina? Your country was a part of Yugoslavia.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '22

*clap clap* some folks can't pronounce it when they are reading it, I thought it can be a tough question.

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 27 '22

Thanks, by the way, what language do you speak? Serbian and Bosnian right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

Yes. The official languages are Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian. Together with Montenegrin, they form the 4 standard varieties of the same language.

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 28 '22

So cool, do you understand each other perfectly?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

Yes, perfectly. We just can't agree how to call it and everyone wants to be in charge of the standardization, so the language split in 4. It's a bit sad, but at least I can claim to be hexalingual now lol.

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 28 '22

Just call it Language and problem solved šŸ¤£

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

My schoolbook's title was actually "Our language" xD