Serbocroatian

**poiuytrewq0987** · 07-17-2010, 04:26 PM

Should the language be renamed Yugoslav, to promote the language to be the single, unified language for the Yugoslavs in a way German and Italian have become for their respective countries?

**~~Tingl Tangl~~** · 07-17-2010, 05:31 PM

Illyrian is the best term.

**Piparskeggr** · 07-17-2010, 06:43 PM

Let's see, as a provincial, isolated American

I am aware that Serbs and Croats are two distinct peoples...Yugoslavian???

Sounds like mish-moshing Canadian-English and Canadian-French and calling the resulting Frenglish, Canadian.

Nay!

**~~Eldritch~~** · 07-17-2010, 09:49 PM

It should be renamed Serbokorean in honour of another divided people.

**Germanicus** · 07-17-2010, 09:51 PM

Whatever is decided there will be another civil war and ethnic cleansing, and Nato will bomb the shit out of you both again?...

**Absinthe** · 07-18-2010, 08:36 AM

Yugoslavia is no more, get over it.

**poiuytrewq0987** · 07-18-2010, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Absinthe

Yugoslavia is no more, get over it.

The nation may not be here anymore but the people is still here.

**Absinthe** · 07-18-2010, 11:22 AM

Dear, don't take this the wrong way, I don't mean to be offensive: it's like talking about the possibilities of a Soviet reunion.
This is totally unrealistic and you need to get over it. I mean, if you're seriously interested in your region's politics and geopolitics you ought to be realistic and looking towards the future because the past ain't coming back.

**poiuytrewq0987** · 07-18-2010, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Absinthe

Dear, don't take this the wrong way, I don't mean to be offensive: it's like talking about the possibilities of a Soviet reunion.
This is totally unrealistic and you need to get over it. I mean, if you're seriously interested in your region's politics and geopolitics you ought to be realistic and looking towards the future because the past ain't coming back.

It's definitely not unrealistic. Have you ever talked with the people here? In the other ex-republics? They all long for a new Yugoslavia that unifies the South Slavs.

**Absinthe** · 07-18-2010, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Hippaforalkus

It's definitely not unrealistic. Have you ever talked with the people here? In the other ex-republics? They all long for a new Yugoslavia that unifies the South Slavs.

The people may long for it but it's totally irrelevant.
It's never gonna happen for political reasons. The U.S.A. and the EU will never allow a unified Balkan region - they want small nations that are easy to handle.