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"MOVA" is literally a "language" in Ukrainian
by MetalHead 6y ago
"MOVA" is literally a "language" in Ukrainian
- dandanua 6y agoRussian chauvinists also like to call Ukrainian language as fake. So this looks like a bad Russian joke.
- kdmytro 6y agoI am Ukrainian and I can confirm, we do not exist.
- dehrmann 6y agoDoesn't Ukraine also mean "borderland?" It's actually funny which name for countries ends up getting borrowed. The Finnish word for Finland is Suomi. The Swedish word for Finland is Finland. Ironically, the Swedish word for Sweden is Sverige, but at least you can see the Sw/Sv commonality.
- dandanua 6y ago"krai" also means area, territory, not just border. The meaning "borderland" is a Russian derogatory narrative, very hypocritical btw.
- junippor 6y ago"language" in Ukrainian is "yazyk".
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoNo, in practice it is мова, and modern standard Ukrainian mainly uses inherited Common Slavonic *językŭ ‘tongue (organ); language’ only in its meaning ‘tongue’. The article for "Ukrainian language" at the Ukrainian Wikipedia is literally "Українська мова" [0] [0] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0 https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97...
- junippor 6y ago---> the joke ---> your head
- dxdm 6y agoMy head, too. That's a pretty high-flying joke, and I'm happy that the other comment cleared up the situation for us ground dwellers.
- junippor 6y ago"Yazyk - Язык" is "language" is Russian. You know, because Russia took Crimea and eastern Ukraine is in civil war. I learned Russian just so I could make politically edgy jokes, so this seemed like a good opportunity. Hopefully this will allow other ground dwellers to have a chuckle.
- kspacewalk2 6y agoRussia annexed Crimea, and eastern Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, which is currently mostly using proxies in place of its own regular army, but these proxies have been created, trained, financed and armed entirely by Russia, and are therefore not a side in a civil war. Choice of words matters.
- junippor 6y agoRussian gov say that Crimea voted to be part of Russia. What do you think of that?
- eingaeKaiy8ujie 6y agojust don't joke like that in Ukraine
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoWell, as a joke it isn't a very good one in a "news for nerds" discussion like this, where someone could have been mistaken, or have been making the very valid point that many surzhyk speakers use jezyk in this context.