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A more serious comment for Sibiriak:



Ну, знаете, на Красной площади почти ничего красного цвета нет (за исключением, конечно, Государственного исторического музея).

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Mark: I know essentially zero about Arabic, but a friend who's "natively bilingual" in English and Arabic once explained to me that Arabic is so overwhelmingly based on "triconsonant roots" that when...

To make my meaning more clear, I didn't intend to say that the entire post was a troll -- I was reacting to Sibiriak's apparent suggestion that the Internet slang «ник» has the smallest bit of...

Believe me I didn't know all the details off the top of my head! I can remember that my high school Latin teacher was always telling us to beware of ложные друзья like "to occupy" and occupare, and...

I can't decide if Sibiriak is being sarcastic here, but assuming that he's serious:



In Arabic, maas means "алмаз" (diamond) while al is simply a definite article, like English "the". Thus, in...

А знаете, Sibiriak, что по моему мнению, только что наступил переход от «обезьян к человеку разумному» и У ВСЕХ неанглоязычных народов!!! ("Если бы наши учёные смогли на 500% объемом увеличить мозг у...

Sibiriak, мне совсем не понятно, почему тут вы написали именно "лживые представления, об истории России", а не "лживые представления, об истории славянской семье языков" или "...об истории...

Forgive me for answering in English, but I don't have the necessary technical vocabulary to say it in Russian. In general, I agree with Yulia's point here:



At the same time, I think there is...

I suppose it would be a type of "folk etymology", although more specifically "люди бога ведают" seems likely to be a so-called "backronym" or "acrostic" that was later mistaken for the real...