Who threatens the Cyrillic alphabet

I've been writing in Latin since the sixth grade, and until now I've only used Cyrillic letters when teaching my daughter to read and write. Whoever feels the need to condemn me for this, now is the time to do so.

My Serbo-Croatian language teacher insisted that we use both letters, because we are the only nation to which this possibility was given - she said. And yet, I was determined by two unforeseen circumstances. At that time, all of us in the class were like crazy collecting song lyrics of popular British and American groups and transcribing them into special notebooks, which could only be done in Latin. Also, at that time, my great-uncle brother from Ljubljana, my favorite cousin, went to the JNA in the navy for two years, and letters were the only way available to me to shorten his military hardships. He knew Cyrillic very well from school, but I chose to write to him in Latin, which is closer to him.

Why am I dealing with memories in this text when they have no place? Because I would like to recall a time when no one qualified anyone by the type of letter they used.

The other day I read in the newspaper that the Cyrillic alphabet is a matter of patriotism. According to that logic, I am a non-patriot, a traitor to my race. Then, I recently received an email whose author, a university professor, advises me that if I don't already have a Cyrillic keyboard or don't use a Cyrillic font, I can easily convert "my Latin to our Cyrillic" using Google. Something like this would not have been possible at the time of the beginning of the text. At that time, no attention was paid to which script you were writing in, it was not noticed whether the book you were reading was printed in Latin or Cyrillic, in Cyrillic no one saw an endangered letter, nor a defender of Serbian identity. At the same time, it was a time of brotherhood-unity, when it was not advisable to emphasize national peculiarities, not even Serbian ones.

Since Serbia became an independent country, many things have become unsafe, including the Cyrillic alphabet. Who is attacking Cyrillic now? The story of the Cyrillic alphabet as an endangered species is vampirized for various reasons, most often hatred. What called her this time? Maybe fear of Europe?

Those whose mouths are full of national identity and who claim that it is not patriotic to write in Latin, I would remind you of Cincar. At one point in their history, they scattered across Europe and the world, and wherever they stopped, they assimilated. And yet, they remained themselves. The scumbags are the scumbags wherever they are. Because identity cannot be taken. Of course, only if you really have it and feel it.

I wrote some of my best newspaper articles in Cyrillic, Latin. Without this subject being imposed on me by the law on the protection of the Cyrillic alphabet, which the Serbian Radical Party has recently been aggressively imposing on the Government for adoption, and on that occasion insists that the Minister of Culture declare whether she is on the side of the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet. It is not a fight for the Cyrillic alphabet, but an abuse of the Cyrillic alphabet. Just like the latest texts of "Večernje novosti" about the endangered Cyrillic alphabet are not. Yesterday or the day before yesterday, they asked how it is that the law on same-sex marriage has a better chance of being adopted than the law on the Cyrillic alphabet. Transfer blames what the kids would say.