Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Nizhny Novgorod isn't Russian? fucking LMAO its been Russian since 1200 at least, prior to that almost no one lived there permanently

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Most importantly I just love me a good zh (and kh) sound.

      Me to Americans when they pronounce it like a Z or a K: :top-use-words:

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        also fuckin england shouldnt exist according to these people and replaced with like 15 different countries, half of which would be controlled by the welsh

        based

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Apparently Welsh nationalists are working on it, and to them I say god speed.

      • Hotspur21 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        How are you supposed to pronounce them? I usually say zh like a soft j and idk about kh

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Soft j is good. For kh it's closer to a hard h, so similar to the Scottish pronunciation for loch. Like it's not exactly an h, but imo it's a better approximation of the pronunciation than a k sound.