politics
March 21, 2026
Ode to Joy
A little joke, but there's half a truth in a joke. I'm relaxing watching TV and stopped on the channel 'PRVA'. The show 'Posle ručka' is on. The cook is preparing a dish and at the end says: 'Finally, we will try it.' Well, maybe that foreign word is in vogue, and 'najzad' is somehow old-fashioned.
TL;DR
- The author notes the use of foreign words and phrases in everyday Serbian, such as a cook saying 'Napokon ćemo ga probati' instead of using a more traditional Serbian word.
- Observations from a TV report on a car show highlight the reporter's use of 'užitak' (pleasure) in the context of luxury cars, which the author finds peculiar.
- The author humorously questions the Serbian tendency to 'enrich' their language and suggests this may sometimes lead to its dilution.
- The piece references Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' as a well-known composition that uses the word 'joy'.
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