Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [mwcircle] Do you know your languages?

[Chernos Saul <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theo wrote:

> Um, I also notice two questions (I think) have choices which include 
> both Bosnian and Serbian... gimme a break... I know the 
> Serbs/Croats/Bosnians/Montenegrins will start throwing rocks at you if 
> you link them, but their spoken language is as close as Brit/North 
> American English.
> Ah, the international broadcasters of Cold War Days after all 
> transmitted in <Serbo-Croatian>.
> At 'VB in the 70's, we had to separate the programming block of the 
> Croats and Serbs with a Slovenian segment to keep them satisfied.

I won't throw rocks, but I'm wanting to toss the only half-decent language textbook I could find in Toronto. But not at you, Theo.

I'm learning Serbian. This freaking monster of a book (and CD) has 4 separate columns for Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian latin alphabet and Serbian cyrillic alphabet. The columns are at best annoying.

The creative dept has clearly been busy the past decade or so creating even more differences in vocabulary than there were under the relatively stabilizing influences, in terms of ethnicity, of the Socialist regime.

What you had in the 70s at CJVB in Vancouver was a sign of things to come in the Old World if and when that regime were to come undone. The writing was on the wall. No sooner did it come undone than Yugoslavia came undone. Sad...

Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON


 5 Sep 2013 17:49:29 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [mwcircle] Do you know your languages?
> 
> Mebbe 20+ years at CJVB/1470 in Vancouver sharpened my ears, but the 
> only one that really threw me was the answer requiring Maltese.
> 
> 
> 73
> 
> Theo
> 
> On 05/09/2013 8:52 AM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
> > This has taken the Medium Wave Circle by storm, suggested by Herman 
> > Boel.    I suspect the Europeans would do better than we colonials 
> > would, but it's great fun, especially if you're missing your fix of 
> > exotic DX:
> >
> >
> >
> >> This is an excellent game (and practise) for DX'ers:
> >> http://greatlanguagegame.com/
> >>
> >> Have fun!
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> - Herman -
> >
> >
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