When is it British and when is it English ?

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by mapuc

An off topic story which i remembered when I read you comment

It was about 94-95 I lived in Sweden at that time.

I was studying in a school for grown-ups

In the beginning I met a person from former Yugoslavia

He said I'm from (forgot the name of the town)
I said Where in Yugoslavia is that ?

He looked at me with some angry eyes and said
It's Croatia, Yugoslavia does not exist anymore.

Now we jump forward some month
A new student had arrived
We became friends and one day I asked him where he came from

I'm from (sorry can't remember the name of the town)
I said isn't that somewhere in Serbia

His response
Yugoslavia thank you.

Markus

In the nineties, during the war, Serbia was still named Yugoslavia. And was at war wirh Croatia. So the Serb saying he's from Yugoslavia didn't mean the federation that existed between 1945-1991, but the smaller entity which later renamed itself to Serbia.
And the fact that they were at war with eachother, you're lucky that Croat didn't punch you.