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.
Ode to Joy The author observes instances of language use on television, including a cook using a foreign word and a reporter using ‘užitak’ (pleasure) in a context with luxury cars. This leads to a reflection on how Serbs attempt to ‘enrich’ their language, questioning whether these changes are truly beneficial. The piece concludes by referencing Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in relation to these linguistic observations.
- 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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