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How to say "peace" in European languages (o.mastodon.au)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (11 children)

IIRC it also means "world".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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!