æz ɐ tɹænslˈeɪɾɚ, hiː wʌz nˌɑːt mɛtˈɪkjʊləs ɐbˌaʊt bˌiːɪŋ fˈeɪθfəl tə hɪz sˈoːɹsᵻz, wˌɪtʃ mˈiːnz ðæt hiː mˈɑːdᵻfˌaɪd ðˌɛm tə bɹˈɪŋ ðˌɛm klˈoʊsɚ tə ðə fˈoʊk mˈɪkst ˈɪdɪəm ʌvðɪ ˈiːstɚnbˈɑːsniən stəkˈeɪviən dˈaɪəlɛkt ænd ɪkˈeɪviən aɪdʒkˈeɪviən ˈæksənt, spˈoʊkən bᵻtwˌiːn ɑːlˈʌvoʊ ænd kɹɛʃˈiːvoʊ ɪn bˈɑːsniə.
As a translator, he was not meticulous about being faithful to his sources, which means that he modified them to bring them closer to the folk mixed idiom of the Eastern-Bosnian Štokavian dialect and Ikavian–Ijekavian accent, spoken between Olovo and Kreševo in Bosnia.