We all speak Serbian here, right? I can see why he's pissed off

[MrScorpio]

>>Serb Leaves News Conference Over Translation

Tue Aug 17, 9:54 AM ET

ATHENS (Reuters) - Serbia and Montenegro coach Zelmir Obradovic walked out of an Olympic basketball news conference Sunday, angered by the translating from his native Serbian into English. <<

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=8&u=/nm/20040817/od_nm/olympics_basketball_serbia_dc

[JohnKleeb]

1. No, I only speak a little Slovene

:shrug: still having a hard time learning it.

[Guy Fawkes]

2. I still can't understand american!

foshizzle my donutzizzle? :donut:

[Fleshdancer]

3. a two minute answer gets translated down to 2 short sentences?

I think it's funny that the coach speaks English but wanted to speak his native language since it was the Olympics...that translator was busted.

[Hoping4Change]

5. Hate to say this but Serbs have isses:)

I myself come from an Eastern European background so I know how East Eurpeans fly off at the drop of a hat. I have a friend who is half Serbian and his grandfather really took the prize. It seems when his granddad was still in Serbia way back when in the 20's, his farm horse got him mad so in a fit of rage he hacked off the horse's head with an axe.

[carpetbagger]

4. Every US small town has one, right?

When I lived in Appalachia, I once had a patient from a Slavic country who spoke very little English, but had a good career working in the US civil service. When he ended up in the hospital, his roommate just happened to be a Serb. Fortunately, this patient spoke good Serbian, not as good as his native language, but better than English, so I used the other guy as a translator for Serbian to English and back.