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From: barr
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:29
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I know I shouldn't clutter up the glass fibers with this, but everyone
seems to be getting into the act.  First, the person who asked the
original question was undoubtedly asking how to _typeset_ Serbian and
for that purpose, Serbian differs from Croation as much as, say, Russian
from Danish.  Moreover, a Serbian alphabet is not the same as the Cyrillic
alphabet.  There are a few Cyrillic characters it doesn't use and there
letters not found in Cyrillic.  Just as Danish has three letters not found
in Roman.  So, while I don't know the answer to the original question,
I don't see that it has been answered.  Moreover, the question is not,
ipso facto, a political statement.

As for the language itself, a friend (who grew up in Atlanta) and I (from
Philadelphia) once had dinner with another friend whose native language is
Serbo-Croation (Serbian branch) and my friend from Atlanta (who has lived
most of adult life in Ohio and thus lost the edge of his southern accent)
asked, ``Just how different is Serbian from Croation?''.   The answer,
delivered after some hesitation and a sigh, ``I've been out of that
milieu long enough to admit it.  There is less difference than between
the two of you speaking English.''  I conclude that any claim of there
being two separate languages is a political, not linguistic, statement.

Michael Barr
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