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'Vranyo' – When you lie and everyone knows it, but you don't care (2022)
- davydm 2y agoAlso known as politician-speak, or, after one of the greatest: trumpish
- anovikov 2y agoBonus point: the Russian word for a physician - "vrach" - has the same root as "vranyo". Eastern Slavic rejection of healthcare has looong historic roots.
- drysine 2y ago"Это опять-таки случай так называемого вранья" (c) Seriously, you are Russian, you should know better than that. Vrach means someone who speaks, i.e. someone who casts healing spells. Some linguists think that it comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root as English word 'word'. Read this, for example: https://elementy.ru/nauchno-populyarnaya_biblioteka/432480/Vrat_vorchat_vrachevat https://elementy.ru/nauchno-populyarnaya_biblioteka/432480/V...
- anovikov 2y agoAnother bonus point: there are also two words for "graft" in Russian: "mzdoimstvo" and "likhoimstvo". The latter has negative meaning, the former is neutral. It is a "socially legitimised corruption that has a scale and scope matching socially perceived rank of an official involved" while the latter is "corruption going way above one's rank".
- drysine 2y ago>the former is neutral No, it is not. You can see this yourself in the Russian language corpus: https://ruscorpora.ru/en/results?search=ClAqJAoICAAQChgyIAoQBSAAKJ2Cm7LUudIEQAVqBDAuOTV4AKABATICCAE6AQFCIQofCh0KA3JlcRIWChTQvNC30LTQvtC40LzRgdGC0LLQvg== https://ruscorpora.ru/en/results?search=ClAqJAoICAAQChgyIAoQ...
- drysine 2y agoВраньё is a bold or prolific lying, no more, no less. "You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes." -- now that is a vranyo) Seriously, the article constructs a narrative basing it on a lie.