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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As a Polish guy who speaks Russian, this stuff is bizarre for me to listen to because it occupies the exact midpoint between the two languages. I can't speak a word of Ukrainian, but it's completely comprehensible. The slavic language continuum is real!
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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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