Wednesday, January 28

Linguistics and Politics

1. From a guide on Sofia:
"Bulgarian is a Slavic language most similar to Serbian and Russian. Macedonian is a Bulgarian dialect in fact."

2. From a conversation with a waiter this morning in a hotel in Skopje:
He: So Latvian and Lithuanian is the same?
Me: No, not really. They are quite different.
He: Like Macedonian and Serbian?
Me: No, the difference is bigger.
He: Like Macedonian and Bulgarian?

1 comment:

leonardas said...

lithuanian and latvian are diferent as german and english are. i heared it long time ago from one lithuanian-latvian filologian:)