• @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    253 months ago

    Ukraine. Not “the Ukraine”. Just “Ukraine”. Adding “the” in front is a russian thing to diminish Ukraine as a country. It would be like Americans calling it “the Mexico”.

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      123 months ago

      But it is the Mexico. Unlike other mexicos. Looking at you new mexico.

      Though you are absolutely right. And it’s more than just things like that which are normalized through innocuous seeming language.

    • SharkAttak
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      33 months ago

      Not everyone has English as native tongue. Other languages use that article-first in similar cases, and such an error doesnt ‘diminish’ anything.

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        13 months ago

        Other languages should update as well. Ukraine has not been “the borderlands” of another nation for decades.

      • @5too@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        Ukrainians have generally expressed a preference for the nation to be called Ukraine, rather than the Ukraine.