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Article #323Serbian
From: barr
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:29
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!mips!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!info-tex From: <barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Serbian Message-ID: <9207221629.AA06604@triples.math.mcgill.ca> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:29:27 EDT Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List Lines: 22