Whatever your feelings about Ukraine (and I hope they're positive!), these people know how to put pep in a folk song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnRCbpkieU …
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(The Slavic Continuum Hypothesis states that, for any language pair X0 and X1, there exists a small group of old people who speak a dialect exactly intermediate between the two and will fuss over you and bake you a delicious pie if you visit them)
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Banach and Tarski proved on a particularly food-heavy visit home in 1924 that leftovers can be reassembled in no more than five rigid motions into double the amount served initially. They also showed that an arbitrarily large amount can fit into a spherical grandchild of radius R
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It's no accident that the logical paradoxes of infinity were all discovered by mathematicians with Slavic grandparents. Sierpinski was forced to spend much of his childhood beating the dust out of a flimsy carpet. But he never went hungry
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I was born in Przemyśl, Poland, on the border with Ukraine. Now I work with several Ukrainians. My brain: what is this uncannily understandable and familiar language of 'NOT POLISH'.
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There is a similar experience with Slovak, where you can understand 100% of it unless you start trying to pay attention
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That’s pretty good, there’s lot of people here that supposedly speak English (like the president) and I still can’t understand them after studying it for 10 years in school and speaking it as primary language for the last decade.
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Because I speak Ukrainian (poorly), Polish is a lot more comprehensible to me than to somebody who only speaks Russian.
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Fortunately there is the universal translator, sold in liquid form wherever anything is found
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