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In article <21JUL92.21735997.0053@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> George Bogavac <K2GT@UNB.CA> writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.194129.15557@athena.mit.edu> dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic) writes:
>>The only reason Serbs and Croats understand each other is because they grew up
>>together and hear both languages spoken all the time.  There exist many
>>differences between Serbian and Croatian.  Coratian has lots of Germanic
>>influences, while Serbian has lots of Turkish words.  The letters are different.
>>Gerund formation is used diferently.  And finally it sounds quite different.
>>Coratian uses ije and je where Serbs use long and short e in some words.  Croats
>>typically don't distinguish hard and soft ch, and hard and soft dj as much as
>>Serbs do.
>>
>
>It is true that Croats generally use "ije" and "je" (ijekavica),
>whereas Serbs use "e" (ekavica) but that is not a difference in
>the language, but a difference in dialect. I speak English as
>fluently as Serbian/Croatian but have a very hard time understanding
>somebody from south London (Cockney accent), the languages are
>undoubtably the same, though. The same applies to the Australian
>dialect.

I am not talking about the same phenomenon.  There is plenty of
difference in vocabulry for someone who learns Serbian only not to be
able to understand Croatian.  Another difference is that I'm talking
about two literary languages.  Cockney is not literary English.  It's
a slang.  Croatian is not a slang of Serbian.  Croatian is a separate
literary language.  And it is really insulting that one would even
consider Croatian a slang of Serbian by comparing it like this.  That
is exactly why the languages should have a different name.  Because
they are different, and both are literary, used by intelectuals in
Serbian or Croatia.  

			Regards,
			--- Davor