Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?

[Alan Jelaska]

Mirsad Todorovac wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Alan Jelaska wrote:
>
>
> > Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
> >
> >
> > > [snip]
> > > Yes, but you are Stokavian Croat, Hrvoje - I don't know how would you feel
> > > if you are Istrian or Dalmatian Cakavian? What makes you think that
> > > Stokavian is "more Croat" than Cakavian and Kajkavian?
>
> > I don't remember he said that Stokavian is "more Croat". It's standard.
> > You learn it in school. I'm Dalmatian, and my father also, and father of
> > his father. I feel good. My father managed pretty well with Stokavian.
> > He even became university professor. Strange thing, isn't it?
>
> I see nothing wrong in cherishing cultural diversity, however.
> The years of Tudjman's hegemony and unitarism haven't severed me *that*
> bad.

Look. You were wondering how Dalmatians feel. I told You. I can't
understand what's this stuff about Tudjman. He's dead. He was not my
relative, and he was not Dalmatian. Did I say anything against cultural
diversity?


> > > 10 years of president Tudjman's unitarism nearly got us lose Istra
> > > peninsula. I've drawn conclusions from that.
> > I don't remember any military operations in Istria. What's that "we
> > nearly lost Istria"?
>
> When somebody wants to run away from you and you have to use opression to
> keep him in, that means you've lost him.

I don't want to use any kind of force or oppression against anyone. I
will also try to respond appropriately if anyone uses oppression against
me. And why are You always speaking generally. I thought that You were
talking about Yugoslav army in Istria. It seems that we are talking about
different things.

> > > Besides, even 2,500 years ago Ahasuerus of Persia was so wise that he made
> > > proclamations sent to each province in it's own language, dialect and
> > > scripture ... Why can't we after two and a half millenia know better?
> > Lucky bastards, these old Persians, aren't they?
>
> This is only a milestone in measuring where the culture of Croats now is
> on timescale ...

??? Where is it? Not in Persia, hopefully.

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