nolannice@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Ukraine blows up main railway connection between Russia and ChinaEnglish
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1 year agoThey have similar alphabets, grammar and a lot of cognates. If you only spoke one you’d be able to recognize most of a sentence with these things, but sometimes words are totally different. They probably sound similar to someone unfamiliar with both, but they are quite distinct.
I agree with this take. It’s like people have the grocery prices from when they first started living on their own seared into their brains.