Yes, Joll I`m the real Kosovar! LOL
) are attributed to different language families: Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarussian are East Slavic; Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and I think Slovene are South Slavic; so I was a little surprised to see that sentence come out as close to Russian as it did. It was almost an exact transliteration from the Russian Cyrillic to the Roman alphabet. But I imagine that someone who knew the two languages well could put together a whole series of sentences that would work in either one. Someone once did this for Latin and Italian in a poem of about a dozen lines that reads correctly in either language! (It's in Mario Pei's The Story of Language.)
Nah, it was cancelled for the second time...
I would not say that I speak Russian. I spent some time trying to learn the language; I can understand a little (if I have time to think about what I hear or read), and I can put some sentences together, but that's about it. A Serbian friend of mine (in the US) who knows a lot of Russians and used to be married to one says that she can understand spoken Russian though she has never studied the language and can't speak it. But Russian and Serbo-Croatian (or the languages that used to be grouped under that term
But worse, I've met many people who have said similar and she wasn't the first or last person whom I heard say something that hateful about gays and lesbians.
All my friends know that i`m a DICK LOVER:biggrin1:, and they are OK with it...Yes but even so I find society down there to be a LOT more homophobic then society in the UK. In B & H and Croatia there are laws to protect gay people too....but even so people's attitude to them is just disgusting, when I hear some of the hate that comes out of people's mouthes about gays and lesbians it actually makes me feel physically sick, and I've never heard people here talk with so much hate about gays and lesbians.
Like when I was in Brela (Croatia) this year, I met a very charming and clever Dalmatian woman who was telling me all sorts of interesting things, then she suddenly came out with "But one thing I cannot understand is where all the gay fuckers have come out of in this country. Where were they before? It's a disgusting disease and they're infecting everyone with it, if you ask me they should all be rounded up and shot. Dirty, disgusting little creatures."
When I heard that it just made me want to crawl away somewhere and not come out.
Do they have lots of fags in B&H?
Do they have lots of fags in B&H?
From The Best of British: The American's guide to speaking British:
