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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:27:15 -0700
From: Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Serbo-Croatian wikipedia
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Why, then, can't a Neo-Štokavian Wikipedia unite Bosnian, Serbian,
Croatian, Montenegrin, Metohijan, and Hercegovinian, Muslim,
Catholic, and Orthodox?
Mark
Because they don't want to be united. The word balkanize isn't named after the
Balkans for no
reason. Yugoslavia broke up after communism for a reason. And it has been going on like
this for
centuries. In the 20s and 30s during the Depression, my grandfather (Slovene) played
baseball
all around the country. He couldn't understand why two of his teammates, one Serb the
other
Croat, would not speak to each other. He would harass them saying, "You are both
born here in
America! You are Americans! You're on the same team!" I doubt Wikipedia is
going to solve their
self-inflicted problems and I honestly think it is a waste of everyone's time on this
list for
them to come here and try to ask foreigners to solve their problems.
.s