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[erasure]

Originally Posted by Maksim_Frolov

Russian language is 150,000 words. English is 400,000 words (a lot of archaic words). At the same time, Russian is a very archaic language. Russian is pretty close to the ancestor of the Indo-European language/

And that's the key understanding ( along with couple of other factors) to why all this "counting" is wrong (modern Russian dictionaries do not include pre-Peter's archaisms and in case of staple Ushakov's dictionaries, - nothing even from pre-Pushkin's times.)
Here is the article that explains how this counting is done, and why English language comes up with much bigger counting of words than Russian)))

Сколько слов в русском языке и сколько слов в английском языке?

Yes, свора use for dogs and can be use for bears.

Because truth to be told they remind of dogs the most.))))


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhLF7RHgLKs

[Ariete]

Stupid languages having so many variations. At least in this aspect Finnish is easy. "Lauma" is a flock/herd/anything for mammals, and "parvi" is for birds and fishes.

[erasure]

Originally Posted by Ariete

Stupid languages having so many variations. At least in this aspect Finnish is easy. "Lauma" is a flock/herd/anything for mammals, and "parvi" is for birds and fishes.

Spoken like a true hunter-(gatherer) and that's what I think Finns are))))

[Turist]

In Toronto, they protest against Putin))

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by erasure

Spoken like a true hunter-(gatherer) and that's what I think Finns are))))

"As gloomy as their forests, and as hard as their granite." So did the Russians call the Finns.

[Maksim_Frolov]

New music video by Otava Yo (Cossack's lezginka). Clip on the intersection of different times.


https://youtu.be/0HtvH34CmZY

By the way, folk costumes are shown quite realistically. Real photo of the early 20th century:


http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/a...62942053_9.jpg

[Maksim_Frolov]

Originally Posted by Ariete

"As gloomy as their forests, and as hard as their granite." So did the Russians call the Finns.

Yes, yes, Finns are cool.

Ariet, what is this song about? Good music.


https://youtu.be/BNm7YdSqZe8

[Maksim_Frolov]

A small piece of Chukotka.

Chukotka, it's here:

https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploa...c166a96b4c.png

Several photos:

Spoiler

The village of 200 people.

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/basov...6_original.jpg

New paramedic Center:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/basov...1_original.jpg

Old houses in the siding:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/basov...9_original.jpg

And the most important local residents:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/basov...7_original.jpg

More photos by link:
basov-chukotka.livejournal.com/281135.html

[citoyen]

I always wonder. Does the house are very colorfull to hellp people recognyze there house in thoses strange places?

[Scrat335]

Yes it does. In Gomel the Kruschovskis my sister in law lived in had color coded trim for each building. It's also done to brighten up the bleak monochrome landscape in winter. It helps maintain color vision also.