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The #UkrainianLanguage thread. A fascist tale.
Can you imagine an American president that did not speak English well?
Did you know that VLADIMIR #Zelensky only learned Ukrainian until he was almost 40 years old?
Even today, Zelensky still can’t...
The #UkrainianLanguage thread. A fascist tale.
Can you imagine an American president that did not speak English well?
Did you know that VLADIMIR #Zelensky only learned Ukrainian until he was almost 40 years old?
Even today, Zelensky still can’t...
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Zelensky still can’t speak Ukrainian quickly
Zelensky does not know many specific words in Ukrainian
Zelensky usually switches to Russian, even when Ukrainian is easy to learn for a Russian speaker (both languages arise from the Old East Slavic language)
And this is not...
Zelensky still can’t speak Ukrainian quickly
Zelensky does not know many specific words in Ukrainian
Zelensky usually switches to Russian, even when Ukrainian is easy to learn for a Russian speaker (both languages arise from the Old East Slavic language)
And this is not...
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This is not unusual
Almost ALL Ukrainian politicians speak Russian privately, even former presidents like Yanukovich
They switch to Ukrainian only to please ultranationalists.
Many popular Ukrainians like @MilaKunisv, never spoke Ukrainian language in her life.
How is that...
This is not unusual
Almost ALL Ukrainian politicians speak Russian privately, even former presidents like Yanukovich
They switch to Ukrainian only to please ultranationalists.
Many popular Ukrainians like @MilaKunisv, never spoke Ukrainian language in her life.
How is that...
Losing track of the number of times a Russian speaker has overheard me speaking Ukrainian in recent months and exclaimed, "Oh, it really IS a different language!" 🤦 Russocentrism: the smug legacy of imperialism and Soviet rule. Russian is not a neutral lingua franca. A rant:
Educate yourself. Start with Ivan Dziuba's 1965 "Internationalism or Russification?" (difficult to find in English) and then go on to Yuri Shevchuk's 2015 "Linguistic Schizophrenia" where he discussed the political techniques of Russification. Some links below 👇
Background on Dziuba's work, protest, and subsequent imprisonment: khpg.org/en/1154035525
Excerpts of his work have been published in English (but I only have hard copies and no PDFs to share today...)
Excerpts of his work have been published in English (but I only have hard copies and no PDFs to share today...)
