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: Regarding that "the term Serbo-Croatian [...] does denote a useful concept": I agree with this, but the common retort to this in Croatia is — why doesn't the term "Croato-Serbian" denote this useful concept instead? It's part of the whole who's-got-the-primacy issue of former Yugoslavia. If we only had a neutral and short term... --[[User:Joy|Joy <small><small>[shallot]</small></small>]] 13:53, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
::I don't really care what it is called. The fact is that it is most commonly called Serbo-Croatian in English. In Yugoslavia both Serbo-Croatian and Croato-Serbian were used, but this usage doesn't seem to have extended to other languages. But I don't think that the order is really a problem - there are great many things that are called after two countries or peoples and one has to come first. I think it's usually decided by what sounds more natural as a word in English. Thus Franco-German relations, not Germano-French. OTOH, if another term comes into general English use, I'd be happy to use it - the current term is at least wrong for excluding Bosniaks and Montenegrins. [[User:Zocky|Zocky]] 17:17, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Hindi/Urdu, S-C term (dis)use==
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