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There's no real differentiation between moose and elk in Russian, since elk is the only one of the two indigenous to Russia and moose is a North American thing,
by vkb 12y ago
There's no real differentiation between moose and elk in Russian, since elk is the only one of the two indigenous to Russia and moose is a North American thing, so there's no real need to "split hairs" so to speak if you're talking to someone who grew up in the Russian language. They'll assume you're talking about elk.
You could theoretically call both лось and have it sound ok to a Russian speaker. It's not something you'd pick up from the language as much as from knowing Russian culture/flora/fauna.
- melling 12y agoI've got several iOS language apps so I need to "split hairs". http://appstore.com/h4labs http://appstore.com/h4labs. Even getting the nouns right in many languages was harder than I thought it would be.
- vkb 12y agoIn that case, it sounds like you should probably hire a native Russian (and Spanish, etc.) speaker to vet your dictionary.
- melling 12y agoEach translation was done and verified by at least two native speakers.
- benologist 12y agoEvery Spanish speaking country has linguistic differences, Russia's so huge maybe they do too?