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, Espaņa, Portugal,
Dinamarca, etc.
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