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How to say "peace" in European languages (o.mastodon.au)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mapporn@lemmy.world
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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (13 children)

TIL the USSR named their space station "peace"

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    IIRC it also means "world".

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    So... "world peace" is just....? Google returns a phrase that it translates back into "peace in everything," but the word does repeat in that phrase. I'm sure it's a contextual thing and I know some things just don't carry over between languages, but now I'm interested in how Russian works.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That would be мир во всем мире, literally peace in all the world

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

    I think it would be one of those small things that constantly amuses me to the bewilderment of natives. One single letter stops this from being misread as "in everything, peace," no? If even that?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Not really, that extra letter is a noun case, it serves grammar only. I guess the word all (всем) is what helps distinguish between the meanings here. It belongs to the semantic field of mir as in the world, while Russians don't use it together with mir as in peace.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Much like Eskimo have 27 words for snow because they have so much exposure and have to denote subtle variations, Russians lumped a bunch of unused words together. World peace? Not in Russian!

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago*

    The whole point was to get past the Cold War and make union between countries. MIR was peace; Americans and Russians working together for all mankind’s scientific progress

    Then came politics.

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