• DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Its basically a requirement of being russian, to marry your identiy of being russian to the russian state, and the identity of the russian state basically boils down to a bunch of imperialist psuedo-nazis (and overt nazis) who are obsessed with large borders, dying in droves in huge wars for national prestige, and living like shit just to maintain the image and arsenal that you are opposing some great evil, like the amorphous “west”

      • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        Say what you want about the Russian people, it’s government, the culture, even the food.

        The language got absolutely fucked with that alphabet.

        Let’s take an Asian tribal language and have two Greek guys force a Latin alphabet on it.

        • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          31·
          2 days ago

          Slavic languages are related to other European languages closer than Finnish and Hungarian, also the writing system Cyril introduced was Glagolitic, the reason Cyrillic appeared was because students in Bulgaria didn’t want to use the rather complex glagolitic alphabet for everything and already knew the greek alphabet, so they kind of combined them and created Cyrillic

          • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            Also, Cyrillic can represent features like palatalization better than the Latin alphabet does, not saying it’s the best for everything but it does have advantages

        • Captain AggravatedEnglish
          52·
          2 days ago

          There isn’t a language on earth that wears its alphabet worse than English.

            • Captain AggravatedEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              We took French, mangled it, added German, Spanish and sailor, and then had a bar fight. What rolled out is the English language.

  • babybusEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    Wasn’t he quoting somebody else here?

    • ziggurat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      3 days ago

      No, green text is used to strawman the comment you are replying to

      Or tell a story about what sopposedlh happened to you

      Rarely used to quote someone

      • babybusEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        I see. However, there’s no > in the Russian layout. So they’d have to switch to English, type >, switch back to Russian, type и, and then switch again to English to continue typing the post. That’d be strange to say the least.

        • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 days ago

          On 4chan, if you reply to a post it puts the > in for you. He just deleted what was there and typed in something else.

          At least I think that’s how it works. I could be wrong, since I haven’t set foot in 4chan in like a decade.

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      The other reply is wrong. If you have part of a post highlighted when you click its post number to reply, it will automatically put the highlighted text in front of the meme arrow. The image is definitely implying that the person they were replying to accidentally used a Cyrillic character.

  • ryedaftEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Ah yes: “Russia will just buy oil from their allies! It’s not a problem to do that”.

    • ryedaftEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      I think Trump might be more up for supporting Ukraine than we think. US oil and gas industry has made bank from this war. The US is the largest oil producer in the world.

  • _carmin@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    That’s me. I’m well versed in countries and cultures so I can be accurately racist af