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.