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jwhouk:
No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
pwhodges:
Of course, as well as it being Easter, there are those who are remembering that it is 4/20...
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Barmymoo:
94ssd, that's a common part of the liturgy, but I'm fairly sure it is actually "Christ has died, Christ is risen". It could be a variation between churches though.
94ssd:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Apr 2014, 10:02 ---No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
--- End quote ---
Ukrainian? I don't actually know how to tell the difference between cryillic languages or how different they are from each other. Recently I had the revelation that Arabic and Persian are nothing alike. I had just assumed the shared writing system meant they were linguistically related as well.
Related: !المسيح قام! بالحقيقة قام (al-masiḥ qam! b-al-ḥaqiqata qam)
cesium133:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Apr 2014, 10:02 ---No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
--- End quote ---
It's Ukrainian. Without knowing any Ukrainian, I can tell because it has the letter 'i' and Russian does not.
--- Quote from: 94ssd on 20 Apr 2014, 10:14 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Apr 2014, 10:02 ---No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
--- End quote ---
Ukrainian? I don't actually know how to tell the difference between cryillic languages or how different they are from each other. Recently I had the revelation that Arabic and Persian are nothing alike. I had just assumed the shared writing system meant they were linguistically related as well.
Related: !المسيح قام! بالحقيقة قام (al-masiḥ qam! b-al-ḥaqiqata qam)
--- End quote ---
It's pretty common in areas that are conquered by other nations for the conqueror to force their writing system on the conquered, even if the languages are nothing alike. Some examples of that would be Mongolian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet, or Vietnamese which uses the Latin alphabet.
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