Under no circumstance that I want to insult your sense of living. I encourage you to get a life. Sniffing through a long post about language is not a recommended weekend’s pastime. However, this article presents many interesting facts about the language. Hard but good to read.
One characteristic word you’ll hear among Serbs where I come from, even from Serbs who don’t speak their parents’/grandparents’ dialect but rather a more standard language, is “?e” (pronounced like the “je” in Jerry) in place of “gdje” (if you Anglophones can manage it!, with “g” as in goat, “d” as in date, pronounced together in that order in front of the “ye” in yes), meaning where.
Thanks a blog reader for this video link.
In this short clip, Richard Gere promotes his newest movie “The Hunting Party” in which he plays a journalist returning to Bosnia after the war to search for one of the two most wanted war criminal. This movie was released in September 2007.
Dr. Svetlana Broz, grand-daughter of Josip Broz Tito of the former Yugoslavia, will speak at San Jose State University, California. Topics include affairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, recent developments in the European Union, as well as the future of the Balkans.
A comment from a frequent reader of this blog:
A quite famous Italian rock band wrote, in the 90s, a whole album on the bosnian conflict. They recorded an impressive live concert in a cd entitled “La guerra, la terra” (the war, the earth), and the most touching song is indeed “Cupe vampe” (gloomy flames). I watched them playing it in Banja Luka, but the public was expecting the typical italian melodic pop and were not prepared to this, so it wasn’t that successful. But I still listen to it in the nights spent driving through the Balkans, and sometimes it makes me cry.
I hesitated before hitting the “Publish” button from my blog editor. I don’t like blogging sensational, negative news; but the news regarding one Bosnian living in Austria carrying an Islamic decorated backpack of explosives to the American’s embassy reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine in Bosnia.
When I was in Sarajevo, I lived on a hill behind the U.S. Embassy and walked past it almost every other day. The first thing which struck me was how many guns carried by the guards. I thought Bosnia was still considered a “troubled” region. However, my friend snickered: “We are Muslims and they think we are all terrorists.”
I passed this club almost every single day as it located right in the center of Sarajevo. Let’s see what people say about him.
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Is that on the menu?
In my past blog entry about Bosnia’s Enjoy Life video campaign, I commented about the lack of reality depicted and that the country was not as relaxing as it seemed. However, I understand the motivation behind and the necessity for making this video.
“Enjoy Life” is one of the rare positive portrayals of Bosnia on online media. Do a simple search on Google and Youtube, and you will come up with either genocide, extremist, war or more layman terms such as “f*ck X” where “X” can be replaced by any objects associated with the recent war in Bosnia.
Comment from a blog reader: Coming from the UK and wanting information on accommodation with local families, maps, etc.I don’t know much about living with the local there; however, I am pretty sure this is possible. If you do, please advise. Thanks.
Remark: The deadline for this year has passed. If you are interested or know those who do, please pass on this information. The deadline should be sometime in June.
I am not the one who asks the above question. Apparently, a techie working on an SEO Black Hat project needs help from people who live in Bosnia-Herzegovina. However, he starts having some doubt about the existence of this country. And No! This isn’t a philosophical question, nor this clueless techie is a Serb.
Anyway, his blog post makes to the Digg site and receives passionate attention from some furious –probably—Bosnian.
My name is Cindy, also rhymes with travel junkie. A friend said I was probably a gipsy in my previous life. One of my many secret missions in life is to convert you to run off every once in awhile.
