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The more things change.... (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bldck@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] GreatRam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I can't speak to all Slavic languages but in mine it's concatenated to the subject rather than being its own word