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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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[pne.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the Essentialist Explanation "Written Belarusian is essentially Russian with misspellings one would expect from small Russian children."