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 No, its nah-good 
😜 
 U from Boston? 
 Nope, never been to Bohston 
 Nos-Trich not no-strich

Do these people say noestr

Oh noestr! 
 Dangit now I'm confused 
 Noss* then?

In dutch it would be called a closed syllable, meaning you are effectively running words together with a very short pause. 
 hey m just noticed U 
 Oh you thought it was mleko

You just told me where you come from

No, not mlijeko, mleko. Only valid in three countries. 
 m, i'm from PNW   pacific northwest  port/land  ore/gon  atm 
 Oshte ti si srbin 
 k, si usted dice 
 never been to Serbia 
 Actually, no. Only Serbia is written this way. It is spoken this way in western Bulgaria but not written (they change ya to e a lot due to Serbian influence) and Macedonia they write mlyako in the Cyrillic. So. 

Kako ste prijatel? 
 well, r u in the new place? 
 i think it might be valid here