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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Serbo-Croatian .
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The term Serbocroatian and other similar terms: Croatoserbian, Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, 'Serbian or Croatian', 'Croatian or Serbian' is unacceptable.
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So, to lump the languages spoken in ex-Yugoslavia as something called Serbocroatian is incorrect and disrespectful to the native speakers.
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Secondly, the term is polyvalent - 'Serbocroatian' connotes a Serb Croatian Croatian as spoken by Serbs? and not a Croat Croatian, 'Serbo-Croatian' connotes a part-Serbian and part-Croatian hybrid, while 'Serbian or Croatian' is an either-or term.
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So that brings us to the question: what do we call that language which we used to call Serbocroatian?
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I don't have a ready answer, except to conform to the realities on the ground, and accept that no or not many native speakers would call it Serbocroatian.
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I speak Dutch and Serbocroatian natively, and that would show.
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So that brings us to the question: what do we call that language which we used to call Serbocroatian?
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I don't actually know Serbocroatian, but I can extrapolate enough from Russian and Old Church Slavic to use my dictionaries effectively.
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No doubt there is in our century a body of world poetry and an international community of poets, whether they write in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbocroatian, or other languages.
A Poet's Reply Milosz, Czeslaw 1988
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Unfortunately the only useful dictionary is still the Morton Benson English-Serbocroatian (new editions I think are called 'Serbian' but printed in latin alphabet) where all dialects are used parallel.
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