Language, identity, and sneezes

Apr 19, 2005 09:03

Best blog comment I've seen in a while: "in my language it's "apciha!... i wish i could tell you what my language is called. we used to call it serbo-croatian, then it became either serbian, croatian, bosnian, or montenegrin and i can't bring myself to call it any of those."  It's so poignant, so absurd, yet stated so matter-of-factly.  The tragic history of a country that no longer exists, boiled down into sneezing etiquette. 

ethnicity, languages, balkans, history is bunk, serbo-croatian, nationalism, history

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