Re: This is how EVIL our world is

On 2024-04-25 01:14:43 +0000, John Harshman said:

On 4/24/24 1:15 PM, JTEM wrote:

(a lot of drivel)

 Well, this is new. I don't think he's spouted any Russian propaganda before. He even uses the Russian trope of referring to Ukraine as "the Ukraine", as if it isn't really a country. Ukrainian government as fascist, check. Moscow theater attack as Ukrainian plot, check. The idea that Biden wants the US to be destroyed in a nuclear war is a new one to me, though.

Something curious is that Russian has no definite article, so "Ukraine" and "the Ukraine" would be exactly the same in Russian (and probably in Ukrainian as well). I suppose they add the "the" when writing their propaganda in English. Anyway, lacking a definite article themselves, Russians are often confused about where it is needed, espeially as there are differences between different western languages: as well as l'Ukraine, French also has la France, l'Espagne, le Portugal, l'Angleterre, le Danemark, le Chili, etc. Even languages closer to French than English is do not agree as to where definite articles should go: Spanish, for example, has Francia, España, Portugal, Dinamarca, etc.
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