Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "‘Unintelligible’: Trump’s mental decline on display in final stretch to election" video.
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@MissRed92837 I'm with you 100% and thank you for getting stuck into this thread, it's important to counter these comments. Just please let's all be careful not to say or print "the Ukraine"... it's a piece of outdated language originating from long-standing russian phrasing designed to reduce Ukraine to a region of russia.
For example, we don't say "the" Spain (Italy, France, etc...): in English, we reserve the article for collective country names like the United States of America, the russian federation, the United Arab Emirates. Since russian, like Ukrainian, has no articles, the original version of this linguistic strategy employs prepositions (the one that means "on" is offensive - the one that means "in" is the one that should be used).
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