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[muckefuck]

You know me, I'm generally extremely sympathetic to the promotion of minority languages and I strive not to be judgmental about what goes under that label; the whole "language or dialect" argument is unscientific claptrap in my eyes. But I'm sorry, "Belarusian" just looks like ordinary Russian badly misspelled.

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[aadroma.livejournal.com]

That seems a bit arbitrary. By that logic Ukranian is also Russian with spelling issues. o_o

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? They look nothing like each other!

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Ukranian and Belarusian are a lot closer than Russian and Belarusian, at least in my opinion. Perhaps not in orthography, but in vocabulary, grammar, and even mutual intelligibility.

Therefore, if Belarusian = Russian, so does Ukranian.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

You're only saying this to hurt me because you know how I adore Ukrainian.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

It's just Russian with bad spelling.

:: laugh ::

Have I told you how much I hated trying to talk with the Belarusian and Ukranian cleaners when I was at Jewel because they would understand but never respond in standard Russian? Yeah. -_-

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Trying to talk with or trying to chat up?

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Talk WITH. The only one I tried to chat up was Super Hot Ukranian Bear Daddy With The Wife Who Looked Like A Weeble, and he spoke English already, at least somewhat.