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:I was asked about my opinion on this. When I was a Russian student at the military Defense Language Institute, some of my friends were studying Serbo-Croatian. Besides the Russian that was my MOS, I listened to a lot of Serbo-Croatian from my positions along the Iron Curtain. I know, as I have always known, that Serbo-Croatian is a single language. What happened upon the breakup of Yugoslavia was the result of smoldering hatred based along mostly religious lines and political leanings. The dialects of Serbo-Croatian are closer to one another and much more mutually intelligible than American English versus British English, or North Vietnamese versus South Vietnamese. What ISO/SIL did was to bow to the political pressures brought by hate-filled partisans to declare a rift in the language where none in fact exists. I completely agree with everything [[User:Ivan Štambuk|Ivan Štambuk]] says, Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are nothing more than extremely close dialects of one language. There is a greater difference along religious lines than across linguistic ones. Serbian spoken by Moslems is closer to the Croatian of Moslems than it is to the Serbian of Catholics, vocabulary-wise. We have had a period of Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian separation that has allowed the parties time to cool off and the smoke to subside, and now they’re beginning to agree that the difference is not a linguistic one. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] 01:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)