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FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko

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FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the “Kyiv” stuff is different.

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    I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out. It’s real 1984 shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn’t usable anymore.

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      layoff-stare unprovoked layoff-stare full layoff-stare scale layoff-stare invasion

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      they can do this one instantly, but scores of media outlets either took forever or haven’t even got Turkiye down yet

      I still think a funny bit is just pretending to not accept the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it “Knib”

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        Tbh turkiye kinda weirds me out. I have never heard anyone complaon about it before.

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