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Well, 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
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Well, 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.
- datameta 6y agoTo add to this clarification: surzhyk is a continuum of regional language mixtures on the Ukranian <-> Russian gradient. And something I learned just today is that the word's etymological ancestor means "with rye", referring to bread made of a mixture of rye and other flour.