I like languages and people me. I like all kinds of them; Slavic-rooted ones, Turkic-rooted ones, Latin-based, Albanian, hell, I even like English. I like them especially when and if they live and are spoken in my country. I know there are some Slavic-speakers in Greece: a couple of hundreds of thousands. I know that most of them speak a form closer to the modern Macedonian language (the Slavic one); the rest speak a form closer to Bulgarian. Regardless, I know that their extreme majority identifies as Greek on the national level; the rest few call themselves Macedonians, and Bulgarians, Pomaks, even Turks. Helsinki estimates the ones that identify as Macedonians are 10 to 30 thousand; the Greek sources say zero.
Nevertheless, I'd like this language to flourish in Greece. I'd like it spoken, I'd like it taught, I'd like its speakers proud of their origin, I'd like it expand south to Crete. I do respect the self identification of these people, and I also respect how they call their language, and for those across the border, their country. Some Greeks can be the strongest supporters for the speakers and for the language, and they can be the best medium for them. Don't ever think that this means I would ever allow preposterous nationalistic claims escalate; from whichever side those may be.
I also respect the Greeks of the north who call their dialect Macedonian, their province Macedonia, and themselves Macedonians. I can even disambiguate those and call them Macedonian Greeks, despite the fact that some of them may consider this an offensive pleonasm. I'm no fool, I know there are many more Macedonians around, and I respect the fact that they identify as such.
So, I'm asking: Why does nobody else wish to disambiguate? Am I such a jerk or should it not be that hard?
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