Vocabulary

The vocabulary for talking about Serbian itself - its two scripts, its written and spoken norms, and the terms that describe how a language is described.

The evocative vocabulary of atmospheric prose - silence, half-light, half-sensed shapes and the emotions a narrator names only obliquely.

The vocabulary of public scandal and opinion writing - accusations, outrage and the rhetorical tools of both provoking a reaction and casting doubt on one.

The vocabulary academic and professional Serbian runs on - the impersonal and hedging phrases that keep a claim objective and cautious, the discourse connectives that organize an argument, and the nouns a report or a study is actually built from.

The vocabulary for talking about wordplay itself - the homonym that hides two meanings, the mismatch that makes irony land, the device that forces one verb to carry two senses at once - everything wordplay-expressive-syntax-c2's own page names.

The vocabulary ru-sr-translation-traps-c2 is built from - the five word pairs that look identical across Russian and Serbian but mean something different, and the terms for naming a false friend, a case, a preposition or an aspect pair when the trap is structural rather than lexical.

The vocabulary for talking about proverbs themselves - anonymous, traditional, sentence-level phraseology - plus a core set of the proverbs a fluent speaker actually reaches for in conversation.

The vocabulary for talking about how correctly-formed Serbian gets written down - capital and lowercase letters, the phonetic adaptation of a foreign name, and the small punctuation marks whose spacing alone carries meaning.

The vocabulary for talking about style itself - the figures a writer reaches for, the narrator who tells the story, and the terms that name what stylistic-inversion-information-structure-c2's own devices actually do.