Ray Saintonge wrote:
If absolutely nobody wanted an sh-Wikipedia we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
No one said anything about anything being absolute. Nothing's absolute. There are some hotheads and you know the story...
Since when does some silly war solve anything?
Maybe if people like you didn't call it silly, people would start to appreciate the Balkans. Expressions like "silly war" may be offensive to some people (not to me, because I'm politically neutral), and some people may be outraged. Do you have any idea how many lives were lost and how many were jeopardized? Do you know how it is to live through a war? That war had A LOT of influence and you can't just step over it.
My experience with the Yugoslav diaspora in Canada, many of whom immigrated before Yugoslavia broke up, is that they still see Serbo-Croatian as one language.
Exactly. They weren't here when the stuff happened. These refugees/people who moved away differ and, while some claim that they "still see Serbo-Croatian as one language", how many of them actually "speak" it? The views are different, but statistics support something pretty obvious.
If a project is to cease operation it must be *allowed* to die a natural death. As long as people keep insisting that SH be closed there will be resistance, and that will keep it alive. Once we are sure that it has stopped breathing, it will be safe to turn off the life support systems.
Does policy like that actually exist? I am, frankly, not aware of that.
The problem with that is that some of those solutions are not very nice.
Like a proverb from these areas says: /Klin se klinom izbija/! (I can't really find a substitute in English ATM)
Cheers. :)