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Feral Finster's avatar

I wonder who compiled that ethnolinguistic map of Ukraine.

I lived there for many years and traveled all over the country and I almost never heard Ukrainian spoken, except in Galicia. "How do you say that in Ukrainian?" was a running joke. For that matter, I was at the signing of an agreement between a Ukrainian businessman (born and raised in Kiev) and a member of the Yushchenko Administration. I don't know where he was from.

Because Ukrainian law required contracts to be written in Ukrainian or a Ukrainian counterpart, both parties asked me to explain the meanings of common Ukrainian words in the contract.

I explained in Russian.

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Data Humanist's avatar

Thank you for the detailed, comprehensive, and what should be to most a thoroughly convincing analysis.

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