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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Because I got yelled at by a Ukrainian a few weeks ago: "Ukraine," not "the Ukraine."
The Soviets tacked "the" in front of Ukraine to linguisticly foster the notion that it was a mere territory or region of the soviet union. Ukraine is the name of the sovereign nation.
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This has been bugging me for days, but only just got around to tracking down the post. How could Russians, whose language has no articles, have tacked "the" in front of anything?? Did they deliberately do it in languages other than Russian, but not Russian itself?
Does Ukranian have articles?
There's no "the" there.
That is all.
