Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?

[Alan Jelaska]

Mirsad Todorovac wrote:

> [snip]
> Yes, but you are Stokavian Croat, Hrvoje - I don't know how would you 
feel
> if you are Istrian or Dalmatian Cakavian? What makes you think that
> Stokavian is "more Croat" than Cakavian and Kajkavian?


I don't remember he said that Stokavian is "more Croat". It's standard. 
You learn it in school. I'm Dalmatian, and my father also, and father of 
his father. I feel good. My father managed pretty well with Stokavian. 
He even became university professor. Strange thing, isn't it?

>
> 10 years of president Tudjman's unitarism nearly got us lose Istra
> peninsula. I've drawn conclusions from that.


I don't remember any military operations in Istria. What's that "we 
nearly lost Istria"?


> Besides, even 2,500 years ago Ahasuerus of Persia was so wise that he 
made
> proclamations sent to each province in it's own language, dialect and
> scripture ... Why can't we after two and a half millenia know better?

Lucky bastards, these old Persians, aren't they?

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