03-29-2018, 03:58 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's not a function of British colonialism but it is a question of English usage. In French, for example, countries commonly have the definite article before them: l'Ukraine, la Russie, la Chine. So there's no pejorative implications to referring to l'Ukraine as there is when you refer to the Ukraine in English, which implicitly demotes it from nation-state to component of something larger.
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