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Serbian/Croatian; or when posting in English to reach greater audience); in case of emigrants, the
commentators have been socialised in another language (English, German) and only learned, say,
Croatian, from their parents or were too young at the time of emigration to fully grasp their mother
tongue. Moreover, in online communication the ephemerality (indeed very close to orality
communication principle) and fleeting engagement with the topic, which frequently results in
abandoning any orthographical rules (omission of punctuation, uppercase, diacritics), seem to be
resulting in freer grammatical rules, effectively democratising online textual communication,
bringing written language closer to spoken idiom.
The comments span positive and negative affects and bring into play various aspects of Yugoslav
past, particularly the glorious, cherished aspects, such as friendship, brotherhood, security etc.
Yet, while positive in their assessment of Yugoslav past, not infrequently such posts radicalise
their stance in defending their interpretation:
dugmicMala respect for the video and the song.And for the rest of you asses, idiots,
cretins and all the other similar types, I can only say I‘m sorry for you... Fantastic
memory...
ru33erman
I‘m just gonna say that you‘re a bullshitting horde, like, you‘ve made your dream come
true you‘re free now what are you free from little pathetic hating people there‘s no jobs
drugs fucked up your kids no more travel you need a visa and you, like, that‘s the way it
has to be done you‘re imbeciles and remember never again are you gonna live like you
did in yuga this will be 6 derelict little states western colonies you should socialise but
still live in the war you with just 3 meters of territory oh you twats you‘re not normal you
need more war cause your lives clearly mean nothing to you
saleyuga
Yugoslavia took care of CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, MATURITY, OLD AGE who is now
taking care about that? WE‘RE BECOMING NOTHING of a man! To be a slovene, a
macedonian..., doesn‘t mean that you‘re a man, to be catholic or orthodox..., doesn‘t
mean your a man the money in your pocket doesn‘t make you a man. today lie is in,
deceit, abuse, hatred, mocking and more and more. Not every ape does that to each other.
WE‘RE BECOMING NOTHING of a man!!!!!!!!!!!
vrtnicann 285
These comments in the dugmicMala‘s 4MO offer an interesting read in that they entail utterly
personal memories but with a more or less clear goal to ‗reach‘ another person and motivate her to
share-in with her own memories.
It appears that the majority of posts are a one off engagement of by a visitor who rarely engages
again in posting (co-creating the memorial). On the other hand, there is apparent domination, in
terms of a ‗feeling of presence,‘ of users who engage in often bitter discussion/clashes. The
following string of posts illustrates quite vividly the radicalisation of view around the memorial:
285 See comments at http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=M7SorJzdBtc.
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