Back from a week researching around Montenegro π²πͺ, Bosnia and Herzegovina π§π¦ and Croatia ππ· with a writer friend of mine. An amazing time! π βοΈ For anyone working with languages, trips to “territory” (where those languages are spoken) are valuable for language maintenance and seeing and hearing what’s on trend linguistically, particularly slang. There’s […]
Two more language directions have been added to my Institute of Translation and Interpreting profile (check it out here https://www.iti.org.uk/directory/member/mr-nick-nasev.html):β Bosnian to Englishβ Montenegrin to English That brings my total to six π. Some background… The breakup of Yugoslavia over 30 years ago transformed what was once one language, Serbo-Croatian, into four: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin […]
π° Words that look the same or similar in two languages but have two, at times radically, different meanings are called “false friends”. There are plenty of them in most languages, and particularly between Slovenian and the other Southern Slavic languages, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Serbian. ππ» A particular false friend I love […]
How do you say in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin or Serbian this: “Up there, the mountains burn worse”? π Gore gore gore gore. I’m not making this up π! This is a genuine sentence made up of four separate homonyms. And don’t bother checking it up on any machine translation tool or AIπ± as it won’t […]
