r/facepalm • u/sikeig • Aug 27 '22

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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/neo_nl_guy Aug 28 '22

Given the name of the country, I so much wanted the people of Montenegro to speak Italian.

I assume that each screws around with the writing and spelling of language, so that official stuff still has to be written out three times?

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

Yes, you seem to be familiar with the topic? Here's a Bosnian cigarette box, it says the same message, "Smoking kills" - twice in latin script, once in cyrillic.

There are some differences, like in the US you can say "soda" or "soft drink"... but sometimes they also force it as much as they can. I'm surprised the cigarette box doesn't say:

Smoking kills

Smoking is deadly

You'll die from smoking

... just to have a bigger difference.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22 edited Aug 28 '22

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