Talk:somerica

There is no such a language as "serbo-croatian" as well as there is no such a religion as orthodox-catholic, although many similarities do exist. The word "somerica" does not exist in serbian language, because Serbia was under turkish occupation, and nor German cultural influence like Croatia. Ante Vranković (talk) 05:55, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This has been debated and discussed here a great deal, and it was decided to treat Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian as a single language: the standard languages for each overlap overwhelmingly, because they didn't just come from one language, they came from a single dialect of a single language. Politically, the horrific history of oppression, ethnic hatred, warfare, and unspeakable atrocities since then has led to people deciding that they don't want to be speaking the same language anymore, but linguistically, there's not that much difference (the dialects are another matter, though). Yes, there's an overlay of German/Turkish/Catholic/Muslim/Orthodox cultural and religious differences, but those don't effect the vast majority of entries, and can be dealt with using regional context lables and usage notes. I'm not saying this because because of any personal knowledge of the language, but from what has been said repeatedly by the people who are actually editing the entries- mostly Croats and Serbs- as opposed to those who just show up to complain. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:32, 29 March 2015 (UTC)