From: faruk@bcars6f5.BNR.CA (Faruk Hadziomerovic)
Subject: Re: Bosnian language, More Citations
Reply-To: faruk@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: soc
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 17:45:19 GMT


In article <92311.135903U52148@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U52148@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

|> Senad, WHY shouldn't Hercegovci be able to speak HERCEGOVINIAN? I, as a Cro
|> from STOLAC, if given a choice between "Bosnian" and "Hercegovian" I would
|> choose Hercegovian. But I wouldn't dream of calling Croatian anything else.
|> I DO have a question for you Senad: If I asked you 2 years ago what
nationality
|> you were, I bet you were Yugoslav, and spoke "Serbo-Cro". Your grandparents
|> were probably fighting alongside Ustasa, and THIS is how you honor them?
|> Also I wonder, given the current fighting record of the "Bosnians", do you
|> still want Yugo? I KNOW that one of the founding principles of SDA is is not
|> to work with anyone who wants to destroy Yugo. That's why SDA won.
|> 
|> -Cro

Let's fix this nonsense. You don't look like Croat, and your pattern
resembles infiltrated serb, to instigate more fight between Muslims
and Croats in Bosnia. So I am responding to you as such.

Q1. Why shouldn't Hercegovci be able to speak HERCEGOVINIAN? 

A1. Because HERCEGOVINIAN is not a language.

Q2. ... if given a choice between "Bosnian" and "Hercegovian" ...bla bla bla.

A2. Choice is not given. The only language on the territory of Bosnia and Her-
cegovina is BOSNIAN.

Q3. But I wouldn't dream of calling Croatian anything else. 

A3. Nobody asked you about your dreams. However your may call your Croatian
dialects Dalmatian or Zagorski which differ among themselves much more than 
Hercegovian from Bosnian dialects.

Q4. If I asked you 2 years ago what nationality you were ....

A4. Stick to the topic and do not insult the people around. This is the
contract which you or your terminal owner signed with the usenet.

Q5. Your grandparents were probably fighting alongside Ustasa ...

A5. Were not Ustasa's Croats extremists movement?

Q6. ... given the current fighting record of "Bosnians", do you still
want Yugo?

A6. The fighting record of Bosnians is extremely good under the 
circumstances, when Mr. Boban blocks any attempt to supply Bosnians with
weaponry. With the extreme shortage of weaponry and ammunition, Bosnians
have eliberated Trnovo, Visegrad, Konjic from Serbs-JNA. They kept
many beseiged towns and still keeping them: Olovo, Brcko, Tuzla, Bihac area,
Gorazde, Zenica area etc. There is no reason for Croats to present Bosnians
as cowards, when the truth is opposite. Bosnians are known as a good
soldiers troughout the history. Austro-Hungarian  empire considered Bosnians
as elite soldiers in their army. The Croat (Ustasa) leader Pavelic called
Bosnian Muslims "flowers of Croatian people." But history aside, Bosnians
are fighting like a hell to eliberate their Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the
split with the Croatian allies need to be overcomed quickly in the interest
of both peoples, to focus to the source of the problem, their common enemy.
I am not saying the Serbs should be exterminated, however they should be
brought
to a senses, their aggression stopped, their atrocities condemned, and
individuals who created this hell brought to the justice.

Q7. I KNOW that one of the founding principles of SDA is not to work with
    anyone who wants to destroy Yugo. That's why SDA won.

A7. How can you say that, when the fact is that SDA as a majority party in
Bosnia organized and carried the referendum for independence (from Yugo) 
and recognition of Bosnia-Hercegovina as an sovereign state.

However, most of your story is unrelated to the discussion about Bosnian
language.

Finally, your pattern resembles a serb who wish to ignite more fight between
Muslims and Croats in Bosnia.

faruk 


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