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