buy a vowel
The Serbian language loves those consonants, but is not a huge fan of vowels. I suppose that's unsurprising for a language that calls itself "srpski." These words look like something that would appear on your computer screen if you just type keys as fast as you could:
trg: square
smrt: death
cetvrtak: Thursday
znam: I know
prvi: first
crno: black
They tell me that 'R' is technically a verb in Serbian, as it is pronounced "er," but I am not convinced.
Also: WiB made the front page of the local leftist/intellectual newspaper yesterday for our small protest outside the National Assembly. I was going to include a link, but I figured no one would want to see photos of people they don't know (I'm not in them) or look at a language they do not understand.
trg: square
smrt: death
cetvrtak: Thursday
znam: I know
prvi: first
crno: black
They tell me that 'R' is technically a verb in Serbian, as it is pronounced "er," but I am not convinced.
Also: WiB made the front page of the local leftist/intellectual newspaper yesterday for our small protest outside the National Assembly. I was going to include a link, but I figured no one would want to see photos of people they don't know (I'm not in them) or look at a language they do not understand.
posted by rachel @ 8:35 AM
3 Comments:
At 12:34 AM,
Bora Zivkovic said…
You mean "R is technically a vowel". That is correct. Crn crv na crvenom trgu bezrbrizno izbrisa krmeljiv i krvavi grm sa trnjem. There! LOL
At 10:24 PM,
Katja R. said…
There was an article in the Onion, during the Bosnian War about the airdropping of life-giving vowels on BiH so that the people could speak to foreigners I gues.
Of course written Arabic and Hebrew, Aramaic, and Welsh don't have that many vowels either.
At 11:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
"r" is a vowel....like in English, "y" is also sometimes a vowel...
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