Talk:Croatian linguistic purism

message: If I understand the situation correctly, Mir Harven has departed. Therefore there is no reason for the page to remain protected. -- Cyan 02:36, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: As the first link on this page says, please see Talk:Croat and Bosnian neologisms for a previous discussion. We've already established that the table Igor added was flame bait, it's just that no one could be bothered to kill it off, up to now. It's good to see others reacting, though. --Shallot 22:53, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Unprotected

message: I won't read these kind of articles until such constructs as Communist Yugoslavia still exist herein. What is Communist Yugoslavia in fact? Yugoslavia was never a communist state!. It was a socialist one. Just read its former official name: Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. I do not see any comms around. Why communism is always used for bad things? It is not the communism itself which is bad, but people. Always people. From Bad to Worst. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 06:16, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's funny that you should mention that, because I've actually come to the conclusion that in English usage, saying that such a state is a Communist state is much preferred to saying it's a socialist state. I guess it has to do with the fact there are two sorts of socialism so it's less ambiguous to say it's Communist, even though that's quite imprecise. --Shallot 17:02, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: AHM, The name of the Soviet Union was called The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. And let me remind you; which was the name of Tito's party governing Yugoslavia; THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF YUGOSLAVIA (KPJ)
Sargeras 16:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Constructs 

message: English - Croatian - Serbian
Pistol - Samokres - Pistolj
Army - Vojska - Armija
Secretary - Tajnica - Sekretarica
Telephone - Brzoglas - Telefon
Fax - Brzovid - Faks
Airplane - Zrakoplov - Avion
Airport - Zračna luka - Aerodrom
Helecopter - Zrakomlat - Helikopter
Radio - Krugoval - Radio
In contrast to what some people have mentioned on this page, this IS pure Croatian.  In the last 100 years, the Croatian language has been attacked and artificialy corrupted by serbs with the intention of destroying the Croatian language and creating a so-called "Greater Serbia."  Since Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and won the Homeland War in 1995, true Croats have been trying to reverse the influnence of serbian words on the Croatian language.
27 March 2005
(J.B.)
:This entry is a complete piece of rubbish. You can't put synonyms from one langugage and pretend they are different words from different languages. Serbian and Croatian language are by all standards one dialect of the same language, and the only micro-differences come from Belgrade and Zagreb standards, and Zagreb's purism and practice to introduce new word coinages or archaisms instead of widely popular forms that are identical. In the example of the word 'telephone' above, where 'telefon' is introduced as 'Serbian', while 'brzoglas' is supposed to be Croatian, 'brzoglas' is a new word literally translated as 'fastvoice', and isn't even used among Croatian people. As if someone in English tried to push 'fastcall' for 'telephone', 'kicksport' for 'football', 'airpusher' for 'helicopter' or 'circlewave' for 'radio' as words from a fictional non-English language. 77.46.198.72 (talk) 09:03, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  comments by 68.4.50.15 

message: Croatian true Croatian, thanks to great variety of dialects and linguistic purism is one of rear pure languages in the world. It may sound a little bit funny to Serbs or to Englishmen, but just try to imagine how it sounds to Romans and Greeks ther words; Television (tele- (“far off”) + vision (“seeing”)) in Croatian dalekovidnica (daleko (“far off”) + vidjeti (“seeing”)) . Slavić (talk) 21:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody ever uses the word dalekovidnica in spoken language. Today it's exclusively used as a derisive term in phrases such as nacionalna dalekovidnica - but only in the written language. Failed neologism just like thousands of others. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:19, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pure language 

message: Half of this article is fairy tales, and the other half is POV. Parts such as During the Yugoslav period, from 1918 to 1990, Croatian and Serbian were largely subject to unification as the Serbo-Croatian language. need to be rewritten. It's a longish article so it would be a lot of work, so I'm just tagging it for now. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:17, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: "because they opposed these "language purges" that wanted to purge numerous words of Church Slavonic origin"
I'm not really aware of "numerous words of Church Slavonic origin" at all. There are some words, but which words were to be purged? I can't recall any. It would be rather "common Slavonic words", which is in no way Church Slavonic! dnik ► 12:53, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Church Slavonic origin?