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chapotraphouse • 2 months ago

Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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chapotraphouse • 2 months ago

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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Hexboare [they/them]
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2 months ago
We're not going to succeed in making English the dumbest lingua franca by making the sounds match the letters.

20 vowel sounds for five vowel letters is language perfection

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