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i did notice you use the definitive article all the time. i think i understand why.
not sure if 99.999% of ethnic ukrainians (of course those who don't speak english as their 1st like you) would have come even close to understanding your deeper motive. the reason is rather simple - as i understand it - there are NO articles (neither definite nor indefinite) in the ukrainian language as there probably are none in ANY slavic language. at least i know for a fact there are none in the czech language which i more or less understand due to living there and which is related to the ukrainian language.
as a speaker of many europen languages you may be surprised when i say that the german language (or for that matter), the french, italian or spanish would use the name of the country your parents hale from pretty much the way you do. with the article.
just thought it may be entertaining to comment on
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it's kinda interesting. both politically and linguistically.blutto said:djpbaltimore said:I thought they preferred to be called Ukraine without the article attached.
....its a translation thing....and leaves a huge remainder when divided simply...I'm kinda Ukrainian, and have been for a while, so I kinda know...read, no easy solution...
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i did notice you use the definitive article all the time. i think i understand why.
not sure if 99.999% of ethnic ukrainians (of course those who don't speak english as their 1st like you) would have come even close to understanding your deeper motive. the reason is rather simple - as i understand it - there are NO articles (neither definite nor indefinite) in the ukrainian language as there probably are none in ANY slavic language. at least i know for a fact there are none in the czech language which i more or less understand due to living there and which is related to the ukrainian language.
as a speaker of many europen languages you may be surprised when i say that the german language (or for that matter), the french, italian or spanish would use the name of the country your parents hale from pretty much the way you do. with the article.
just thought it may be entertaining to comment on
