Wish more languages would do that and not try to keep the original spelling just because.
Paradoxically, Serbian belongs in the group "write as you hear"; the mapping between writing and pronunciation is quite simple and uniform in slavic languages. It is English, that you have to learn twice -- first time to speak, second time to spell.
Can you do that in general if you don't know the actual language, though? Even native English speakers sometimes have issues with certain borrowed French words, despite those being in English.
Jumped couple of time seeing Cyrillic "Питхон", though)
I love localized names. So I like what the Serbians did for Steve here.
In any event it’s his name but it’s their language and they get to spell it according to their transliteration rules.
"The company desperately needed the Macintosh to be a hit. Instead, after an initial flurry of interest, sales of the new computer came in far below expectations. The Macintosh was underpowered, and the lack of software for it kept business customers away. In April 1985, Sculley convinced the Apple board to strip Jobs of his management duties. Sculley put out a statement that Jobs would continue to be a “creator of powerful ideas and the champion of Apple’s spirit,” but in reality Jobs suddenly found himself in a no-man’s land at the company he’d created. He was kicked out of his office and moved to a small building across the street, *which he nicknamed Siberia*. For a couple of months he dragged himself into the office to take the occasional phone call, but with depression setting in, he eventually stopped visiting the Apple campus altogether.
That September, Jobs officially cut his ties to Apple and announced plans to start a new company, NeXT, taking with him a handful of Apple engineers. "
Last year the European Parliament passed a resolution saying it "strongly regrets Serbia’s non-alignment with EU sanctions against Russia, which damages its EU accession process." There's also the problem regarding their relationship with Kosovo.
Also, only 34-43% of Serbians want to join according to polls. Compared to Albania's 97% and Montenegro's 79%.
I think Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and even Ukraine are more likely to join the EU next.
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Edit: read reply for more context
"Dear Mr. Musk, here is your Argentinian Citizenship! We welcome you with open arms! P.S. please note that as of 2020 we have in place a tax on high-wealth individuals. The appropriate agency will be in touch. Renouncing citizenship takes about a year"
US also imposes an unrivaled insane extraterritorial law (FATCA) on foreign banks requiring them to do expensive reporting on US persons, making them worldwide pariahs in the banking system even when they hold dual citizenship.
There are two actually.
‘From now on, Mr X is now one of our citizen, with all the taxes/restrictions it entails’
International law regarding nationality generally focuses on preventing statelessness, so there isn’t much on prohibiting additional citizenships.
This obviously causes problems for critics of the regime.
"It is the greatest honor for us that I believe that the Government of Serbia will grant the creator of the global IT industry a Serbian passport. I congratulate Wozniak and his wife, who will become citizens of Serbia today or tomorrow," said Vučić.
"We can boast that the computer genius is a citizen of Serbia," he said. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met in Belgrade with computer engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Either way it is indisputable that he is a computer genius and it is a worthy boast that he chose to become their citizen.
Not to say they also didn't stand on the shoulders of giants.
By the way, Wozniak mentioned that he and his wife were on vacation in cities along the Danube, so I guess that's the reason he's in Belgrade.
Is this just a bad translation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Serbian_...
It's customary for us here in EU to grant citizenship/titles/university degrees to various important people who have contributed to a specific field. Some countries do it out of recognition others for country/political gains, but it doesn't hurt to have a collection of passports :-)
Apparently some friend introduced made arrangements for him to get the citizenship
