brigid: drawing of two women, one whispering to the other (Default)
brigid ([personal profile] brigid) wrote2022-11-02 09:41 pm

ok, but that's not how you say it

My husband, whose dad is from Czrna Gora, is watching a show on Serbia and damn this (English) host just is awful at saying Serbian names and words. It's like he's purposely choosing to put emphasis on the wrong syllable every single time. But what can you possibly expect from a people who pronounce "St. John" as "Sin Jin"? I ask you. So Nesko keeps yelling out corrections and the correct versions of these words sound so much better, even when I didn't know the correct version to begin with.

It showed some amazing public art, too, and a Serb who was interviewed talked about anti-fascism and stated that the roots of modern Europe grow from that. Which is a lovely sentiment but I'm not entirely sure it's true.

They also showed external shots of Communist housing blocks and look, they seem pretty efficient and utilitarian, if not beautiful. Greece managed to make it work.

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