100 Bosnian Jokes

By Midhat Ridjanovic

Hilarious and entertaining! Bosnians may well be the greatest hedonists in the world. To them, the quality of life is mesured by the sex they've had in a lifetime, the drinks they enjoyed, and the humor that made them laugh. Bosnian jokes are totally irreverent – the protagonists make fun of everything and everybody, including Bosnians themselves. Still, they do not cross the limits of decency. Bosnians laugh at what they see as their own stupidity. Also, they will insult each other just to make themselves laugh, and nobody takes offence. Check the truth of this by reading this fascinating collection of Bosnian jokes!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Midhat Ridjanovic
• Release date: Oct 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463302217

Midhat Ridjanovic

Dr. Ridjanović is professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Sarajevo. He obtained his doctoral degree in linguistics at the University of Michigan in 1969 and taught at Sarajevo University's Department of English for nearly forty years. In 1984-85 he was a Fulbright visiting professor of Serbo-Croatian and linguistics at the Ohio State University. He has given invited lectures at universities in the former Yugoslavia, at the Zagreb Linguistics Circle, at the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and at Oxford University. He has published eight books (one in the U.S.) and over fifty papers and articles in local and international journals. He received several prizes for his scholarly publications, including the awards for the best non-fiction book published by the Svjetlost company in 1984 and the best-book prize at the International Book Fair in Sarajevo in 2004. He was among the pioneers of simultaneous interpretation in the former Yugoslavia and has since interpreted at over forty international gatherings, including the Dayton Peace Talks (as Certified US State Department Simultaneous Interpreter) and proceedings at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague.

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100

Bosnian Jokes

Selected and translated from Bosnian by

Prof. Midhat Ridjanovic

ABOUT THE BOOK

Hilarious and entertaining!

Bosnians may well be the greatest hedonists in the world. To them, the quality of life is mesured by the sex they've had in lifetime, the drinks they enjoyed, and the humor that made them laugh. Bosnian jokes are totally irreverent – the protagonists make fun of everything and everybody, including Bosnians themselves. Still, they do not cross the limits of decency. Bosnians laugh at what they see as their own stupidity. Also, they will insult each other just to make themselves laugh, and nobody takes offence. Check the truth of this by reading this fascinating collection of Bosnian jokes!

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Dr. Midhat Ridjanović

Professor emeritus of English and linguistics

University of Sarajevo

100 Bosnian Jokes

Published by Midhat Ridjanović at Smashwords

Copyright 2018 Midhat Ridjanović

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The only background knowledge you need to follow these jokes is the nicknames of the three main characters appearing in Bosnian jokes: Suljo (pronounced Soolyo), the nickname for Sulejman, Mujo (pronounced Mooyo), the nickname for Mustafa, and Fata (pronounced Fahta), the nickname for Fatima. The men are extreme hedonists and live only for drink and