QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzM to Political Memes@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agoThe more things change....sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1776
arrow-up1776imageThe more things change....sopuli.xyzQuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzM to Political Memes@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareApertureUA@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoThere’s no such thing as “The” in both Russian and Ukrainian, but what I’ve seen happen is pro-russian people intentionally saying “on (the) Ukraine” (as if “on the edge”) instead of “in Ukraine” to piss people off.
minus-squareBldck@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoHuh. TIL Slavic languages don’t have a definite article. So it’s this grammatical mess of Germanic definite articles attached to a Slavic word and the outcome is politically fraught
minus-squareGreatRam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoI can’t speak to all Slavic languages but in mine it’s concatenated to the subject rather than being its own word
There’s no such thing as “The” in both Russian and Ukrainian, but what I’ve seen happen is pro-russian people intentionally saying “on (the) Ukraine” (as if “on the edge”) instead of “in Ukraine” to piss people off.
Huh. TIL Slavic languages don’t have a definite article.
So it’s this grammatical mess of Germanic definite articles attached to a Slavic word and the outcome is politically fraught
I can’t speak to all Slavic languages but in mine it’s concatenated to the subject rather than being its own word