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In article <19244@plains.NoDak.edu> CP6uH@plains.NoDak.edu (CP6uH) writes:
| Hence now we have Serbian and Croatian language.
| 
| Anyway, we all know those two are soooo different... like Australian and
| American versions of English... but if those young democracies wish to
| exercise their right to develop new language, make artificial 52-letter
| words, let them have it, no biggie... at least I don't care [no more...]

Does CP6uH, signed `Nik', speak Australian?  Having been an Australian
living in the USA, I've seen how much I've had to change my language
to make it comprehensible to Americans.  Obviously they don't watch
enough Australian movies or TV :-).  Yes, I know that Australian/
American is merely a dialect difference.

With a name like Nik, I don't know if CP6uH speaks any of the Slavic
languages, so I won't guess.  I speak neither Serbian nor Croatian,
although if I got brave I could ask the cleaners who are some brand of
Balkan what they think.  But I can read (most) Cyrillic characters
through a distant abortive attempt at Russian.

Here in Australia, they print lots of Guvvie stuff multilingually
(even if it's only a paragraph giving the phone number for the
Government Interpreter Service where someone, I guess, will read the
rest of the stuff out and explain it).  When I see Serbian and
Croatian written on the same piece of paper, the words aren't all the
same, even if you can read both alphabets.

To me, it seems that whether they are the same language, or not, in
speech, they are written differently.

And because everybody over there seems to hate everybody else, I will
keep soc.culture.yugoslavia unsubscribed, and be judicious with the
amount of comp.text.tex I read...

-- Christopher