Natan Flayer 🇺🇦🦈🤌
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🇮🇱 Israeli Jew, made in Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Military, history, history of warfare, literature and linguistics, russophobia.
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IT.
Military, history, history of warfare, literature and linguistics, russophobia.
HEB/EN/RUS/UKR
🇷🇺 and 🇵🇸 👉💀
Seafaring nations?
December 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Seafaring nations?
In many related words and phrases in modern russian (with modern spelling) "мир" is still being seen as community/society (i.e neither "peace" nor "world"), while "world" is referred to with the world "свет" (which is pan-Slavic, also means "lignt"). It is getting complicated the more you dig in.
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
In many related words and phrases in modern russian (with modern spelling) "мир" is still being seen as community/society (i.e neither "peace" nor "world"), while "world" is referred to with the world "свет" (which is pan-Slavic, also means "lignt"). It is getting complicated the more you dig in.
This case is also complex, but different. The word "Миръ" (an absence of war), and "Мiръ" (community/society of people) used to be homophones before the 1917/8 spelling reform, which fused them both into one word "мир".
"Мiръ" came to mean "world" (i.e. community/society of ALL the people).
"Мiръ" came to mean "world" (i.e. community/society of ALL the people).
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This case is also complex, but different. The word "Миръ" (an absence of war), and "Мiръ" (community/society of people) used to be homophones before the 1917/8 spelling reform, which fused them both into one word "мир".
"Мiръ" came to mean "world" (i.e. community/society of ALL the people).
"Мiръ" came to mean "world" (i.e. community/society of ALL the people).
You know, in modern russian the word for "peace" and "world" is the same (due to historical and linguistic reasons).
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You know, in modern russian the word for "peace" and "world" is the same (due to historical and linguistic reasons).
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
I enjoyed reading Sapkowski's Witcher series too, and around the same time stumbled upon the word "Strigoi" in Romanian folklore. After some research I was very surprised that in Ukrainian folklore vampires do exist, but they are called differently, and the word has no cognate in Ukrainian.
November 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I enjoyed reading Sapkowski's Witcher series too, and around the same time stumbled upon the word "Strigoi" in Romanian folklore. After some research I was very surprised that in Ukrainian folklore vampires do exist, but they are called differently, and the word has no cognate in Ukrainian.