Talib wrote:Aren't all Serbocroatibosnian speakers purist in the sense that they don't use words the "other" side uses?
Most Canadians don't say ZEE, and see ZEE for ZED as an Americanism.
The same things would happen with words like DOCNIJE or PACOV in Croatia, even Serbs in Croatia use KASNIJE and STAKOR.
But this is not purism because even in ExYU, these words were not used in Croatia.
Purism means that some Croatian grammarians want to get of words that both Croats and Serbian use:
1. avion; now all newscasts and travel agencies have replaced avion (airplane) with zrakoplov (aircraft). Which is not very accurate because avion (airplane) is more specific than zrakoplov (aircraft).
2. njen ~ njezin (her); Croatian grammarians said ''njen'' should not be used because it's Serbian, but 50 % of Croatian people use njen
3. The same thing happened to: mada vs iako (although), planet vs planeta (planet) and so on.
People in Zagreb have always used the word PLANETA and not PLANET. PLANET is something people in Dalmatia would use, but they would also say MINUT instead of MINUTA.