Mark Williamson wrote:
Shh... don't say that too loudly, or we'll get a Serbian or a Croatian or a Bosnian in here telling you how they're vastly different languages and how you have no idea what you're talking about and all sorts of other nationalist bull. That isn't to say there aren't differences between the three, just that they're smaller than nationalists would like to have you believe.
I have a Srpski-speaker who calls "bullshit" on the idea, noting the differences are on the level of 'Merkin vs British, and who I think would happily call it "Serbo-Croato-Montenegro-Bosian" if it could all be made to work together. Just need to get him on Wikipedia.
And I think my views on nationalist POV-pushers are well known ;-)
Really, it's nationalist splitting for no reason that's to Wikipedia's good. But a merge would have to go down well with the contributors, of course.
(I look forward to guerilla bands of interwikiers "translating" articles from one to another by copy'n'paste. And machine transliteration to sr:.)
- d.