QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzM to Political Memes@lemmy.caEnglish · 22 days agoThe more things change....sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up1775arrow-down16
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minus-squareBldck@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days 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-up3·22 days agoI can’t speak to all Slavic languages but in mine it’s concatenated to the subject rather than being its own word
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