Even putting aside the fact that the ü in “Bürger” should be replaced by “ue” rather than simply “u” (similarly the ä in “schädlich” and ö in “möglichen”), as written this technically instructs people to not leave the house unless it’s necessary due to the possible negative effects of gases stemming from the plastic fire in Brijesto. (Rather than giving the latter as the reason for not leaving the house in the first place. Also, this technically implies that following this advice you shouldn’t leave your house if it’s on fire or something.)
Good morning Croatia, Franz Joseph is back.
~~I totally didn’t steal this joke from r/Croatia.~~
Maybe it’s because Germany is on vacation (“Herbstferien”) and Croatia is one of the most popular destinations.
Die Burger.
Back in the day, a lot of Osijek residents were of german ethnicity.
So, it would be appropriate 100 years ago.
Does a significant majority of Croats speak German?
It’s funny because where I vacation in Croatia every summer (Istria), they literally go above and beyond for German tourists. They speak German, they will greet you in German instead of Croatian, they will play German music in bars etc etc. And I am not German.
At least they sent the message. BTW, the messaging system is a novelty in Croatia, we never had anything like it up until the major floods (or was it storms?) two months ago. This thing was in development for a long time – imagine the technical complexities of sending an SMS once someone click a button on a web interface, it must on par with a nuclear reactor or something. Then of all a sudden questions started popping up where were these emergency announcements and voila – a few week later we started receiving them.
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Even putting aside the fact that the ü in “Bürger” should be replaced by “ue” rather than simply “u” (similarly the ä in “schädlich” and ö in “möglichen”), as written this technically instructs people to not leave the house unless it’s necessary due to the possible negative effects of gases stemming from the plastic fire in Brijesto. (Rather than giving the latter as the reason for not leaving the house in the first place. Also, this technically implies that following this advice you shouldn’t leave your house if it’s on fire or something.)
Good morning Croatia, Franz Joseph is back.
~~I totally didn’t steal this joke from r/Croatia.~~
Maybe it’s because Germany is on vacation (“Herbstferien”) and Croatia is one of the most popular destinations.
Die Burger.
Back in the day, a lot of Osijek residents were of german ethnicity.
So, it would be appropriate 100 years ago.
Does a significant majority of Croats speak German?
It’s funny because where I vacation in Croatia every summer (Istria), they literally go above and beyond for German tourists. They speak German, they will greet you in German instead of Croatian, they will play German music in bars etc etc. And I am not German.
At least they sent the message. BTW, the messaging system is a novelty in Croatia, we never had anything like it up until the major floods (or was it storms?) two months ago. This thing was in development for a long time – imagine the technical complexities of sending an SMS once someone click a button on a web interface, it must on par with a nuclear reactor or something. Then of all a sudden questions started popping up where were these emergency announcements and voila – a few week later we started receiving them.