User talk:Ђорђе Д. Божовић

Hallo George, I can certainly help you with this.

However, there have been some doubts raised about how different Zlatiborian is from Serbian... do you think you could provide some examples of a Serbian phrase, alongside its Zlatiborian translation?

Thanks. --Node 01:53, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi George,

I'm afraid I don't know anything about Zlatiborian, or its relationship with Serbian. As for its status as a separate language, I guess that would all depend on what the precise definition of "language" as opposed to a simple dialect, or accent, etc. I think someone who was more qualified in the field of linguistics than myself might be able to better help you with this. As far as I've read, however, there are several examples of dispute in this area, such as: multiple "languages" being mutually intelligible, while Cantonese and Mandarin are considered by some to be different "dialects" of Chinese even though they're completely unintelligible. As an encyclopedia, I think we should avoid subjective political arguments, and focus on what is and isn't true from an objective scientifically rigorous linguistic perspective. Ed Sanville 18:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Zlatiborian

Please stop insisting that it's a language. Wikipedia is not a place for original research - you need scholarly references to introduce a term, and there simply are none for this. --Joy [shallot] 20:09, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]