The Ukrainian embassy says that The Ukraine is both grammatically and politically incorrect. 🤷🏻♀️
- 0 Posts
- 3 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 18th, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
Similar for
The Ukrainewhich means “the frontier” in Russian and evokes the history of Muscovite imperialism over their frontier states
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