South Morava Puns

#Intro

To break the monotony, I've decided to write up a short overview of a real language cluster, namely South Morava Torlakian. This is part of an ongoing project of mine to document the Slavic language varieties that make up the enormously diverse dialect continuum between northern Greece and Stalać, Serbia (excluding Bulgarian and the forms spoken east of the line Bosilegrad–Pirot, in Serbia).

This continuum of dialects owes its diversity to a very, very late liberation from the Ottoman Empire (the last parts of the zone were freed and partitioned in May 1913) and lack of any sort of pervasive standardisation until well into the 20th century. As a result, this zone is highly diverse in linguistic terms, reflecting numerous isoglosses and very characteristic changes that set it apart from Serbian and Bulgarian language standards. This zone totally encompasses the Macedonian language standard and its numerous dialects, many of which have been thoroughly documented and described in published literature.

As a disclaimer, I am not a native speaker of any of the language varieties spoken there — or, rather, any Slavic language — but am fluent in Macedonian and Serbian (standard ekavian štokavian). I am, instead, working with several native speakers from my target areas, and thus misrepresentations of the dialects of these areas lie solely on my poor or biased interpretations of the data the speakers provide.

This post is intented to be used as a resource on a lesser-known Slavic dialect cluster.

#Classification

The language varieties of this dialect continuum are variously (and politically) classified as Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbian, based on the ethnicity of the speakers that use them. For ease of classification, I am going to treat the Bulgarian language as the varieties of Slavic spoken east of the Bosilegrad–Pirot–Petrič line (traditional narrow Bulgarian), as well as east of the line Petrič–Thessaloniki, which makes up the yat border outside the borders of Bulgaria.

Thus, all varieties in this continuum are South Slavic languages, belonging to the group of older Štokavian dialects (as opposed to the newer Štokavian dialects spoken west of the line Kotor–Nikšić–Tutin–Stalać–Požarevac) that are generally ekavian (have a non-high monophthong that reflects Proto-Slavic /*ě/, henceforth called "yat reflex"), with some small ikavian tendencies (have a high monophthong yat reflex) in pronouns in the dialects closest to the north of the c

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Kurvingrad or Koprijan

Kurvingrad or Koprijan

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Kurvingrad (Serbian Cyrillic: Курвинград, lit. "Whoretown") or Koprijan (Копријан), is the ruined fortress which sits above the town of Doljevac on the South Morava river, 11 km south of the town of Niš.[1] The ruins are all that remain of the medieval town of Koprijan from the time of Antiquity, making the fortress over a thousand years old. Today, there are remains of fortifications, but they have not been substantially studied.[2]

Theories for the origin of the name:

There are several legends about the origin of the name Kurvingrad (Whoretown). According to one legend, during the fortress's siege, a certain immoral lady from the village came out at night while people were sleeping, and opened the town's gate for the enemy.

According to another, more commonly held legend, a wealthy lady from the town loved to make nighttime visits to nearby Monastery of St. John at Orljane [sr] allegedly for prayer, but actually for the romantic relations with the priest. Legend has it that a girl stretched canvas at night

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Hey everyone, I am Augenis! It has been a while since the last time I did a PR - for the United Baltic Duchy and Riga last year, in fact. A year has passed since then, marked by several noteworthy updates - and I return once again, with the Balkans Rework, and specifically with a Progress Report on the Serbian Republic.

###A Balkans Rework?!

Indeed! The Balkans Rework began not long after the release of the United Baltic Duchy and was kept under complete secrecy from start to finish. I did, however, post teasers in the form of cryptic single icons and focuses, purposefully redacted to not reveal the origin of the content while also allowing me to have a little fun.

Why was this rework hidden when so many other reworks planned for countries in KR have been revealed and are often discussed on Reddit and Discord? Well, I have several reasons for it. I envisioned the Balkans as fulfilling a role similar to Sweden, coming during the wait for major releases, of which there are several in the works right now. I also wanted to limit the spread of misinformation and rumors coming from very limited information which teasers usually provide, which has been an issue for several KR reworks in the past. Finally, it is simply my personal preference to keep the cards to myself and then reveal everything at once. After all, the UBD PR was also posted very late in its coding phase, when it was already close to completion on the Eastern Europe branch.

I have toiled all by myself away from the public for the past year, and so, all of the content displayed in this PR is fully code complete, while the next PR is almost fully code complete, and both will be released to the public this summer.

###New Serbia situation

To not make this PR longer than it needs to be, only a summary of the full new Serbia lore will be present here. Instead, once the Balkans Rework is released, you will be able to find full information in the Kaiserreich Wiki - here

The short summary is as thus:

• By 1918, the annexationist tendencies in Austria-Hungary had largely passed and their main figures such as Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and István Tisza had been sidelined. Instead, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes charge in the planning of peace treaties, aiming for a nominally independent Serbia after the war. This position is endorsed by Germany, who had proposed a unified Serbian-Montenegrin client state of Austria since 1915.
• Th

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

I won't be doing that today!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

Why

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap