Yeah, I was on my way to get Super Castro Bros. 2 for my Nintendo, but a group of Bosniacs were waiting for me by the home depot.
Those freaking Bosniacs! Too bad it takes 30 years in the Senate to calll a "Bosniac" a "Bosniac". Wow...
I'll freely admit that I didn't watch the debate tonight (I watched OSU drop a heartbreaker to Utah instead). What happened with those pesky Bosniaks? Edit: it occurs to me that people are possibly thinking that Biden flubbed by calling people from Bosnia-Herzigovan, "Bozniaks" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks
Biden was talking about his trend toward intervention and brought up Kosovo as an example. Instead of "Bosnians" he referred to that group of people as "Bosniaks". For someone who claims to know the area so well, it was a little embarrassing.
Bosniak is the proper term ... maybe I'm missing something? Unless he meant to say Kosovars? That is to say the muslim adhering residents of Bosnia-Herzigovina refer to themselves as Bosniaks, and people of all ethnicities could (I suppose) be more generally called Bosnians ... but even then, I'm still failing to see how his use of the proper name for slavic muslims in that region is a flub.
Thanks for the correction. I'll count that as the thing I learned today. I always thought it was Bosnian.
I've only been to Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia, so I would hope he knows it better than I do.
To be honest I did too, until I took a 400 level Geography course last spring on Russia and the Balkan states.
I know that you are friends with Obama's campaign manager and all. You've also had quite the life experience's living in Chicago and D.C. But Biden is a longtime member and the chairman of the foreign relations committee, I'd say he knows a thing or two about Bosnia.
That's pretty cool man. I've been to Serbia and Montegro from that list. And I'm from Kosovo. Also been to Macedonia, lived there for about 3 months before moving here. But yeah they call themselves Bosniak, we Albanians call them Boshnjak, and the Serbians call them Bosanci.
That kind of reminds me of the joke about the NW and what we 'call' each other. In California, we're Oregon and Washington. In Washington, it's Oregon and California...and in Oregon, Washington and that boil to the south of us.
