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The US has so much space (lemmy.world)
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[–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

You can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:

Google maps don't let me zoom out to show entire route.

EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, it's not even the longest. Magadan, anyone?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    From Zapolarniy to Magadan, 1 hour more:

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is there actually a road connecting those points?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Okay, help me out here. What is the little letter after н and before и? I learned to read Cyrillic from Serbian and they didn't use it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Заполярный? Ы. If you pronounce it as e/i you can get "cute"(мило) instead of "soap"(мыло).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    How is it normally pronounced? Both e and i in English can be pronounced in a lot of different ways, so is it like the sound in "way" or more like "tree"? I'm used to и being the "tree" sound

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    So it's sort of an ü? That's what my brain hears in the video.

    Checking against the ipa given on Wikipedia, I get that ы is the close central unrounded vowel while ü is the close front unrounded vowel. Listening to the audio samples on those pages, I literally cannot hear the difference.

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