Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "" video.

@АндрейЛарин-в6н Thank you for demonstrating to the whole comment section what russian propaganda looks like in practice, and while it's ridiculous to even think that we could leave politics out of any discussion about language. Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish are all different languages, which are much closer to each other than they are to russian, and all four languages are descended from a common ancestor. The Cyrillic script was first developed in modern-day Bulgaria specially for Slavic languages, that's why it's more economical than the Latin script for these languages. It was Catholicism that led to Poland adopting the Latin script - nothing to do with the supremacy of russian culture, which in fact took a lot longer to develop than the others (and as we can see, never got very far). Another interesting fact about modern russian is the high percentage of foreign loan words, which were then imposed on languages like Ukrainian over centuries of colonialism. russian isn't a particularly original language. I recommend people look into the work of the Kazakh author Olzhas Suleimenov, whose seminal book АЗ и Я (a play on words, which means Asia but also reads like "Asia and I") was censored in the soviet union for analysing, with linguistic evidecen, the possible Turkic origin of the Russian chronicle "The Tale of Igor's Campaign".
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@mozejestinaczej8520 Plenty of Ukrainians from the eastern regions speak Ukrainian, either by upbringing, education or choice, and that's a fact. Plenty of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and other countries speak Ukrainian, although there are undoubtedly some of continue to speak russian, or both languages. Please inform yourself a bit more before spreading russian propaganda. Keeping politics out of language is impossible, especially in a situation like this.
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@АндрейЛарин-в6н Ukrainians also read both Cyrillic and Latin scripts, as well as any other that they may have in their background and/or education. And in general, anyone who grew up with a script other than Latin is more likely to also read the Latin script than people with the opposite upbringing.
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@mozejestinaczej8520 Is anyone supposed to take this seriously, or have you suddenly morphed into an inarticulate teenager? Or maybe you always were. But don't worry, I get it. Anyone open to taking in verifiable historical facts "gets" how russian propaganda work in the language sphere (and generally).
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@АндрейЛарин-в6н You in russia have long been accustomed to the arts of lying and invading, oppression, population displacement, and other despicable practices, and the fact that so many of you are still proud of it is a daily demonstration of how undeveloped your "great culture" actually is. Finally, more and more people around the world are starting to see you as you really are - I just hope it's not too late to neutralise the threat to Ukraine and the world. And since you came up with specific examples: Ukranian has a native word for "soup" that has nothing to do with the French loan word imposed on it by russian occupiers. Not to mention that when russians say "flag" they say, well, flag, while Ukrainians use the native word "prapor" (I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard on this device, hence the transliteration).
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@АндрейЛарин-в6н Aaah... the unmistakeable comment diarrhoea of a true russian troll... thanks again for the demo. You can have a rest now.
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@fairworldorder You don't seem to know that linguistics is a science, and its findings are based on empirical, verifiable observations. Now this may be hard for you, because supporters of russia and/or maga tend to be pathologically fact-phobic, but there is a huge amount of empirical data demonstrating beyond a shred of doubt that Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish are all different languages, much closer to each other than they are to russian. The only two in that group that are to a large extent mutually intelligible are not Ukrainian and russian, or Ukrainian and Polish, or russian and Polish, but Ukrainian and Belarusian. And as for russophobia 🙂 наша русофобія недостатньа 💙💛
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