Talk:Main Board for Serb Liberation

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Irrevelant naming[edit]

Main Board for the Liberation of Serbs in Turkey is a very poor naming. The Ottoman Empire and Turkey, although related are not the same thing. Yes, Serbia was once a part of the Ottoman Empire. But Turkey is not an empire and Serbia was never a part of Turkey. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 18:49, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

~~It is a synonym for the Ottoman Empire.--Zoupan 20:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)~~ Blocked sock:Ajdebre.[reply]

There is not a single Google Search hit or Google Scholar result for "Main Board for Serb Liberation", nor any for "Main Board for the Liberation of Serbs in Turkey". Both must be OR translations (probably Google translate-derived OR). Common sense suggests "Board" should be "committee", and "Main" should be "central". Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 19:31, 5 October 2016 (UTC) Blocked sock:Meowy.[reply]

Perhaps more troubling is that "Главни одбор за српско ослобођење" also has no scholar results, and any hits are just regurgitating this page or come from Association for Serb Liberation and Unification. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 19:38, 5 October 2016 (UTC) Blocked sock:Meowy.[reply]

Common sense does not at all say that. central is "central", glavni is "main". odbor is primarily "board" (komitet is used for "committee"). What is the problem? We have historical and academic journals, apart from the books cited, that use the name. An English-language work uses "Main Serbian Liberation Committee", another "Committee for Liberation", but these are false translations.--Zoupan 23:33, 5 October 2016 (UTC) Blocked sock:Ajdebre.[reply]

So, I was right in saying that it is an original research translation and is not a sourced one. I have no expertise to say whether modern Serbian, influenced by modern-era borrowings and a generation of Soviet terminologies, is different from 19th-century Serbian. However, all these liberation groups were inspired by earlier European examples, so it would makes sense that the meaning of the name was reflecting the wording that those earlier examples would have. Glavni does seem to be translated as "central" in many uses (such as "central train station", "central square"), plus "central" is a synonym of "main" in English. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 15:27, 6 October 2016 (UTC) Blocked sock:Meowy.[reply]