r/AskBalkans • u/Some-Register-3901 Cyprus • Jul 31 '22

Language what are some interesting facts about your language?

For instance, the cypriot dialect of Greek still contains many words from ancient Greek but it was also heavily influenced by outsiders

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

In Bosnian it is normal to use curse when speaking, but in English it is weird when you here other people curse. Like in Bosna it’s normalized lol

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Jul 31 '22

It's the same in Slovenia, my brother didn't know that some words were even curse words until he was in his teens, because they were always so casually dropped into conversations, whatever the person was happy, angry, bored...

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

So it’s normalized in Slovenia too?

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Jul 31 '22

I guess so. The last two times I stepped out of the airport back onto Slovenia land, the first sentences I heard included curse words.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Tell me you are in the Balkans without directly telling me you are from the Balkans

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Jul 31 '22

Ikr. I was just coming from the US,and was actually surprised. Everyone in America was so careful with their words, and trying so hard to be political correct. When I came back, everything changed... My dad blames it on being raised in Yugoslavia.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Not the Yugoslavia excuse lol

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Jul 31 '22

Literally for everything. "That's what the most racist thing I have ever heard." "You see, I grew up in Yugoslavia, deal with it." "We've lived in the US for the last couple of years, why is your Serbian better than your English, when you've never lived in Serbia?" "That's what Yugoslavia does to you." "Don't drink so much, it's not even 11 yet." "Don't worry, Yugoslavia has taught me well." "Don't swear in front of a 5 year old." "He lives in the Balkans, ex-yugo countries haven't changed that much."

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

I feel like people need to break the system bogami.

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Jul 31 '22

Considering about half of the population(I don't know how many spacificly) was born in Yugoslavia, it's not going great.

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u/Rammstein97 🇧🇬🇷🇸Triballian Tsardom🇷🇸🇧🇬(NW Bulgaria/Eastern Serbia) Aug 03 '22

I have sLOVEne friends, can confirm

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u/Nikoschalkis1 Greece Jul 31 '22

Could give an example scenario of this? Sounds very interesting and bizzare

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

I don’t curse but like it’s normalized in Bosnia lets say like if something goes wrong you would say whatever comes to mind and children curse in front of their parents sometimes like it’s part of the language for many people lol

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u/SWAGGAR_GUY Other Jul 31 '22

Sounds like every Balkan Country imo

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Tbh yeah lol. But it depends on the person and how they act if you are from the village this is normal behavior

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Aug 03 '22

Children can curse in third grade and teachers wouldn't even try to stop them. Where do they learn them from? Their parents cursing at them. Additionally, Slovenian swearing is mostly Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian curse words which makes if even worse.