Ukrainians are so easy to recognize. I requested 3 Ukrainian stickers but got 4 in an envelope covered with happy hand-written messages. This is the very typically Ukrainian exuberance: whatever you ask for, you’ll get more just because the world is beautiful and the joy just has to be shared.
There is no Russian on the planet who’d do this. Not because they are inherently bad or anything. Simply because their stance vis-a-vis the world is a lot more suspicious. Remember the story of how N suspected, throughout the first year if our relationship, that I only said nice things to him to get him relaxed and then deliver a mortal blow? That’s very Russian.
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Yes. They have a very exuberant culture. They’re also very artistic. A photographer recently took a picture of a fight in the Ukrainian parliament using a technique which originated with Renaissance painters where they divided their canvas into various areas based on the Fibonacci series of numbers. Each element in the series is the sum of the previous two elements i.e. 1,2,3,5,8,13 etc.
This creates the “golden ratio” or “Divine proportion” used to arrange the elements in the painting. Leonardo Da Vinci”s “The Last Supper” is an example.
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I just bought a piece by a Ukrainian artist on eBay. I will post a picture here when it arrives. Absolutely stunning artwork.
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Ever try an image search with the following search terms?
путин медведев живопись
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yikes
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Does that word mean what I think it means? My SO is of Polish heritage. A few months ago she met a recent polish immigrant at the pet store who told us that everyone in Little Poland (southeastern Poland, “Galicia”) understands Ukrainian, and vice versa. Then a few weeks later we were at the dupermarket and I told SO that I recognized a conversation I heard as being in “a slavic language other than Russian” so SO, being an extrovert of course introduces herself and these two turn out to be from wester Ukraine and tell us the Ukrainians consider the Poles to be like cousins or something.
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It looks like it says “We thank you!” (djakujemo) to me, not a million miles away from dziękujemy (or Slovak ďakujeme for that matter).
Often Polish and Ukrainian speakers can understand each other well enough if talking about everyday things though slower speech and avoidance of some forms is often required (like the Ukrainian simple future tense with m or Polish third person formal address forms) and Polish and Slovak are similarly very close.
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It means “thank you.” Poles have been so supportive recently that I now consider them brothers and sisters. Even feel tempted to give higher grades to students with Polish names.
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“I am Dexter the scientist, and I am troubled by the joie de vivre that this bemused Dee Dee shows when she enters my Laboratory only to try to break the magnificent things inside it, although I find her presence irresistible …”
[now imagines N as Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory, which was created by a Russian-American animator, and as for Dee Dee … well …] 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory
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