Boiling hard in euphemism (![[info]](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20041224093945im_/http:/=2fstat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bizatachi) wrote,@ 2004-11-22 16:37:00 |
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Slow Day at Work
Okay. I realize that not everyone understands the subtle differences of the Slavic dialects as well as I do. But, then again, I'm a goddamn genius. You know, what with my barely passing a whopping three semesters of language studies. But as this article about the Putin administration's WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN GEORGIA "election" in Ukraine makes perfectly clear: few people can differentiate between the two presidential candidates because their names are so similar.
Viktor Yushchenko: Ukrainian. A nationalist. Liberal. Western oriented reform candidate.
Viktor Yankuvich: Putin puppet. Russian.
-VICH is the ending for the Russian Patronymic and is also a very common ending to a lot of Russian surnames.
-CHENKO is an extremely common Ukrainian ending for surnames.
It's not really that freaking hard you lazy bastards.
Okay. I realize that not everyone understands the subtle differences of the Slavic dialects as well as I do. But, then again, I'm a goddamn genius. You know, what with my barely passing a whopping three semesters of language studies. But as this article about the Putin administration's WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN GEORGIA "election" in Ukraine makes perfectly clear: few people can differentiate between the two presidential candidates because their names are so similar.
Viktor Yushchenko: Ukrainian. A nationalist. Liberal. Western oriented reform candidate.
Viktor Yankuvich: Putin puppet. Russian.
-VICH is the ending for the Russian Patronymic and is also a very common ending to a lot of Russian surnames.
-CHENKO is an extremely common Ukrainian ending for surnames.
It's not really that freaking hard you lazy bastards.
