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There once was a company in Russia who tried to make their own wikipedia — but of course, they didn't have any resources to build their own content, so in their
by golergka 3y ago
There once was a company in Russia who tried to make their own wikipedia — but of course, they didn't have any resources to build their own content, so in their world, Europe in the middle ages was terrorized by mighty Nordic warriors called encyclongs (w and v are the same letter in Russian language).
- reaperman 3y agoPlease help me understand this! Encyclongs doesn’t compute for me and also does not contain any w or v.
- PeterisP 3y agoIf you replace (in cyrillic script) viki[-pedia] to encyclo[-pedia] (because you can't do a whole word replace, since in inflectional languages like Russian every word has many forms with different endings, so you must replace the beginnings of these words to catch all the inflected wordforms) then vikings become encyclongs.
- VTimofeenko 3y agoVikings == wikings (in Russian spelling) > echo "wikings" | sed "s;wiki;encyclo;" # which is what enci.ru did "encyclongs"