"When foreigners come to our country ... they point out that in Zagreb they are told that they speak Croatian very well, in Belgrade that they speak Serbian very well, and in Sarajevo that they speak Bosnian very well, and they always say the same thing. But how can a resident, let's say, from Posavina, let's say, a Croat, find it acceptable to claim that he and a Dalmatian, not to mention a Zagorac, speak the same Croatian language, and that he and his neighbor, a Bosniak or a Serb with whom he communicates on a daily basis, do not speak the same, but different languages."
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