• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Much like Eskimo have 27 words for snow because they have so much exposure and have to denote subtle variations, Russians lumped a bunch of unused words together. World peace? Not in Russian!

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      1 year ago

      It’s literally “Miru - mir”, “Vsemirnyi mir”, or “Mir vo vsyom mirje”.

    • Number358@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That a misnomer, eskimos technically have lots of words for snow, but that’s because they combine the adjective and the noun, so snowy snow would become something like snowysnow. If you count that, then every language has lots of words for snow