• @AngryAvocado@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just a side-note, an FYI, in some languages (including mine), adjectives created from capitalized nouns (such as country names) are specifically not capitalized.

      • @AngryAvocado@lemmy.ml
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        21 year ago

        Polish (for example we would write “polskie jedzenie” instead of “Polskie jedzenie”. And in this context I think the “Russian” is an adjective as it’s used to describe the war. Anyway, that was just an useless fun fact.

        • Russian is not an adjective but a people from a particular country/nation. Every country/nation holds a prominent identity enough for its people to be designated with a capitalised nation/country prefix. You would call someone a Puerto Rican and not a puerto rican, or a Spaniard and not a spaniard, or a Filipino and not a filipino, or a Kazakh and not a kazakh. Same goes for Poles, not poles.

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            AngryAvocado is right though, if you look to the context of post in question, kulun wrote “russian war”, which in polish would be “rosyjska wojna” - it’s clearly an adjective and in polish adjectives are rarily capitalized.

            • Is Kulun a Pole or Polish speaker? You should see his account history and it should be very easy to see. A correlation like that is not that far off.

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                No idea, from what i seen he’s a bootlicker (this is sadly very common for Poles in the internet) and a stalker and i would rather not dive into all the nonsense in his post history. Just wanted to say Avocado is right about the language.