• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      2 个月前

      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.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 个月前

        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@kbin.melroy.org
        3·
        2 个月前

        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.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

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

        • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

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

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 个月前

        Only one? “Ukrainian liberal trans communists” is probably pretty high up there in his scapegoat list.