User talk:Gidriano

Your Serbo-Croatian synonym additions
Hi, I noticed that you're adding "Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin" qualifiers to synonym sections of standard "Croatian" words (siječanj, glazba, etc.), I just want to recommend not doing that. This Wiktionary is not about what standard varieties prescribe which words their speakers to use. It's common to hear or read "muzika" in Croatia (e.g. parties), though it's true that "glazba" is predominantly heard in Croatian media. More correct qualifier is "Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia" (referring to the country/region) and not "Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian", though mostly none at all because it's not true that speakers from other countries can't use these words. Assigning certain words to one, and others to another standard bolsters separation and violence over the actual language. Some of these "Croatian" words no one actually uses but linguist lunatics, which go to extreme lengths, such as replacing kemija with lučba, policajac with redarstvenik, helikopter with zrakomlat. If you knew the language, you'd know how dumb these replacements sound. I'm saying this as someone from Croatia, tired of this practice. Thanks and have a good day. -Vipz (talk) 08:20, 20 May 2022 (UTC)


 * No problem. I had seen such qualifiers on other wiktionary pages about Serbo-Croatian words and thought to do the same elsewhere for logic and standardization through pages. I apologize if I did anything the wrong way, I just tried to give coherence to the pages I modified regarding other similar pages and I also think it's still interesting to tell which dialect/language consider which word to be more common or standard. I know about language and linguistic problems among those countries, no worries I did research about it and know it's an important topic not to mess up with. So, I propose to modify those pages and add qualifiers such as "rare" or "neologism" to clear everything out. Gidriano (talk) 08:38, 20 May 2022 (UTC)