My friend, who is Russian and grew up in Moscow, started laughing "What's funny about that" "I'm sorry, but... Ukrainian language movement In Russia we think of Ukrainian as just Russian with a hick accent, the idea of a book of Ukrainian poems is just weird"
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*beat* *beat* "Okay so you understand this kind of thing is why they have a 'movement'"
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"I'm not, like, from Ukraine but my understanding is they're actually very angry about this"
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When I was in college they had a ton of informal language clubs for learning languages that didn't have an official faculty department One of the posters said "What do all these Ukrainian celebrities have in common?" showing pictures of people like Mila Kunis and Mila Jovovich
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"None of them speak Ukrainian! Would you like to?" It was, admittedly, a hilarious pitch, that said everything they needed to say about cultural imperialism without actually saying it
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(Mila Kunis, for her part, actively disidentifies with Ukraine because her family emigrated due to fleeing widespread antisemitism, which she said she got hit with again when coming back to visit as a celebrity in 2012, so this is kind of a fraught multidimensional issue)
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Scots is a language. Almost dead but it is a language. Just as much as Gaelic is. People trying to take it from us sucks.
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Plus there's doric too!
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Being Swiss this is interesting because Swiss german is an older language than high german. Also: Only ~5.5 million who speak Swiss german. But there is a free website that can attribute you to the correct county accurately (avg. size 4000 people) with only 10 common words.
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The website is Chochichäschtli-Orakel (swiss german for kitchen cupboard; high german: kleiner Küchenkasten-orakel) http://home.datacomm.ch/heeb/dialect/ Have fun looking at the various expressions for "moon" or "today"
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