You call an entire nation as fascists? Without knowing what many people in Russia think about this chaos and totally against the war? Interesting. Doesn't it makes you a fascist yourself also? Because of people like you, opinion of adequate russian people about Ukraine just getting worse and worse.
@@IzzyChopChop And just so you know…both their governments are shitty. Racism, nationalism and propaganda run rampant on that side of Europe. They need to quit pointing fingers and find middle ground before Eastern Europe is flattened.
@@IzzyChopChop I use those words interchangeably. I do NOT agree with what’s happening so save the uppercase yelling for someone who does. My closest friend is Russian, so seeing these comments generalizing them like this makes me sad.
I hope I get to visit Ukraine soon. The country and its people are beautiful. My big regret is I didn't really know that until this stupid war started. ):
I think many beautiful People are outside Ukrain right now, working like hell to help their Motherland. I wouldn't do the same for Fascia. Slava Ukraine ✌❤
I understand the motivation (any claim for having an understanding how Ukrainians feel would be presumptuous!). However the history of my country, Germany, shows that the willingness of using denigrating features of language for a “good cause” often is followed by uses one hadn't intended. Next time maybe someone finds it ok to write Kenyan or African in small letters, or Jews or Christian. It seems that it is difficult to limit such "Rule-bending" to the intended "good cause" because there are always people who won’t or are unable to do it “responsiblly”. But again I must emphasize that I have no intention to criticize this! As I write this I am sitting on my balcony with no threat to my or my loved ones well-being! I only send you my love and my best wishes and assure you that my heart and my thoughts are with you literally by the day and the minute!
You need to understand in this case the Ukrainian language has more context to it as it was the first things Lenin assaulted when they took over Ukraine's provisional government in 1918. The Ukrainian language, literature and anything culturally Ukrainian was banned by the Politburo. In order to facilitate the holodomor, Stalin first got rid of the intellectuals who promoted Ukrainian culture. I think the Ukrainians have had enough of Sovietization/Russification up to now and need to get rid of anything reminiscent of Russian imperialism.
I concur. It is sad to see an amateur language channel, which not so long ago would discuss practicalities of Russian language use in Ukraine now becoming a bittered, politicized attempt at anti-Russian propaganda. Nie tędy droga.
@@SzalonyKucharz Dear Szalony Kucharz Troll. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Troll in possession of a brain is in want of more brain. However, life is hard when one is so poor that one can't even afford manners! So you may rest assured of my undivided pity! Though I am not religious I put in a prayer for the people around you. They’ll need it!
I visited Ukraine back in 2018 , such a beautiful country and to see it now in ruins really breaks my heart , hoping this stupid war ends soon and Ukraine will be rebuild back to it's former Glory
Every month I make donations to Ukrainian charities: 60% goes to those who support the army and 40% to those who are more focus on giving humanitarian help. Normally Come back alive and Razom but I sometimes share it with others charities that Ukrainian journalists trust and Prytula is one of them. I think everyone should help Ukraine somehow. It doesn't matter how much. Read, share, inform. Solidarity it's what makes us human. The civilized people won't give up on Ukraine and I hope our governments won't either. Stand with Ukraine!
It seems kind of silly to make a rule like that for the language, although I don't think the leader of the war even deserves to be named at all. With this rule, I feel like it punishes the citizens of the country who for the majority, don't support the war. My cousins on my dad's side were saddened when this war began because my great grandpa was born in Tchortoryya in 1881 which wasn't part of Ukraine until the 1990s and as a Jew he probably wasn't treated well in his own country of birth. He immigrated to Montreal in 1913. My great grandma, great aunt and great uncle immigrated to Montreal and joined him the following year. My grandpa was born in Montreal in 1914 as the first of the immediate family born in Canada. Love to all Ukrainians!
It’s not silly. Any resistance, even if it’s grammatical is still resistance. Using lower case letters indicates one’s empathy for Ukrainians and outrage at russia.
I agree tbh. It won't really solve anything either. If we're gonna do that, then we also need to start typing 'america', 'britain', and 'france' instead lol. It unfortunately won't stop those countries from invading and pillaging everywhere just as it won't stop Russia either. Then again, knowing many Russians, they'll probably get really offended which is funny.
We in America still use the name of a Revolutionary War general who defected to the British as a synonym for "traitor". I'd think us Americans have no room to talk.
I have friends in Kiev and in Moscow. They are all very close and very kind friends. My friend Masha in Moscow is such a great soul and against the war and the government. I never will stop to love her, like i love my friends musicians in Kiev. I do'nt want this war in my heart. I want to look at every single human, who he ist.
@@andrewshepitko6354 you can call it like you want to, as long as your intention intention is not mean and only because you don't know better. And my Intention was not mean. Перепрошую і відтепер називатиму Київ. Не важливо, які букви ти використовуєш, а те, як виглядає твоє серце. точка.
Two of my friends from school got really excited because their dad is coming to America, and they haven’t seen him since the war started because he’s in the Ukrainian military. I was thinking when the war is over, hopefully soon, I could visit Ukraine. That is a goal I would like to achieve when I’m older, stay safe and Slava Ukraini
I understand that you are at war. But to start writing Russian with a lower case for that is to encourage Russophobia. Not all Russians agree with the war. In addition, you must not forget that percentage of the population of Ukraine that has dual citizenship, Ukrainian and Russian. The more Russophobia there is in Ukraine, the more the Donbass people will want to be part of Russia and not of a country that despises them.
Sometimes you need to think that Ukrainians who received such "russian passport" did it because they were forced to!!! This was especially true in the occupied Donbas region. And an unfortunate and hurtful truth is that there are a small number of Ukrainians, with Ukrainian passport and who were born on Ukrainian territory, who ate up the russian propaganda growing up and are now on the russian's side. These people don't deserve Ukrainian citizenship, if they still have it. Luckily, that number is very small
I sympathise but this is just propaganda. I’m not writing Russia ‘russia’ any more than I’m writing China ‘china’ or USA ‘usa’. It’s just silly and isn’t helping anyone.
@@marcellom.5765 My family lived in India, and lived through a period of war with its neighbour, Pakistan. This attack on language seems very strange and almost dangerous as it would antagonize 8 million people in Ukraine who would ethically be Russian and speak Russian as well. In India during the war, despite the horrors and senselessness of it, The Urdu language, being the language of Pakistan was treated the same as any other language in India. All these convoluted rules purely in spite of a language seems foolish. And might even Justify Russian Propaganda.
Language is neutral. It is just a tool. We know what Putin is doing is inexcusable. And we want to see the Russian army go back to Russia. However, changing spelling rules won’t in reality do anything. And the Russian language in Russia itself is not going to be affected by this policy. It would be like Great Britain retaliating against the U.S. for something by changing a few spelling and grammar rules or refusing to say/ write certain words or phrases. My wife is from Ukraine and she wants Russia to stop the killing and go home. However, I don’t think Putin cares about language changes in Ukraine. What needs to happen instead is to provide Ukraine with enough help to drive Russia out of the country.
Right, language is a tool. As any other tool it can and should be adjusted just to make the job done. And a tool isn't a holy relic. Btw check out the word "rashism" in Wikipedia...
@@AcroDroneCanada And your answer will change once you get out of diapers. For your information, I am a baby boomer. And language is a way of communicating. It is not partial to who is winning the war.
@@irishchocolate3872 "won't do anything"? Of course it does. "Language is neutral." Hard to not get that it's symbolic and symbols are a way to express yourself and important. If you thinks words aren't important in war then it's on you but having this point of view is really weird.
@@Bob-qu4wc You don’t understand. The people behind the language that are using the words are not neutral. The language itself doesn’t start wars. It is the people behind the language that do.
Hello. I want very badly to learn Ukrainian language.I bought a kindle book which was OK, but then I discovered you videos.I think they are done very well. I've only gotten as far as learning the alphabet, but I've got it down! The letter names and the sounds. I don't know what what video to watch next. I don't think they are in order here on youtube. Could you tell me what order to watch the lessons in......or maybe just the next 10? Thank you very much. By the way, it is music they motivated me too.
I do support Ukraine in this war and I truly hope that this nightmare will be over soon. However I disagree with this such changings in the language for a few reasons. First of all, not all Russians support this war and I think it's unfair to generalise. Second of all, why don't we condemn other wars and other aggressive countries? Palestinians have been suffering for so long and nobody cares to critcise Israel. Also what the US have done in countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq... I just don't think it's fair to admonish some and excuse others... Of course you as Ukrainian care most about your country, which is totally understandable, but I mean others. And I'll repeat it once again so that nobody twists my words or takes them out of the context... I DO NOT support Russian politics. I'm just trying to be fair and sympathize with all victims. And btw when Russia attacked Syria just some years ago, nobody seemed to care...
Ukraine 🇺🇦 had a civil war with the Donbas region in the East against Russian oriented 🇷🇺 rebels who did not support the new Kiev regime ever since the western puppet government overthrew & gained power. Nobody cared & now everybody thinks the war just started in February... But what happened is that Russia just openly joined in on the fun.
EXACTLY!! And I hope she knows Ukraine’s government is crap too. Racism and propaganda run rampant on both sides not just Russia. And in my opinion nobody cares about those other countries because they aren’t white.
while i am very sorry about what's happening to Ukrainian people and what Putin has done to your people, changing to lower case, doesn't solve the situation and just makes Ukrainians look petty. names of people and places are always capitalized. we don't have to like the person or place for it to be capitalized. but thank you for your video and information.
Are you kidding me? Ukraine is not being petty. Decapitalising the words is an act of resistance. What is petty is when putin invades sovereign Ukraine because he can't handle the fact the soviet union is long gone.
@@iontach9844 thank you for your comment iontach. you say "Decapitalising the words is an act of resistance." resistance is a human feeling and act, where language and writing is politically neutral, made so by the fact it's not a alive and can't reason. if the act of Decapitating had an outcome favorable to the Ukrainians, there would be no need for a hot war now. on top of all this, you have every google algorithm and Spell checker in the world, putting a red line under those uncapitalize words, why? because it's wrong. All the best to you and your family.
I have been seeing this for some time and I assumed that to be the case, putting it to use here as well. Thank you for all of your videos. Glory to the heroes!
Ну, океюшки, хотя решение довольно странное. Я, конечно, войну не поддерживаю и всеми руками за перемогу України, однако имя собственное писать с большой буквы это не проявление уважения. Понимаю, конечно, что реформа эта скорее чисто символическая и, вероятно, является просто актом солидарности, но всё-таки чисто с научной точки зрения это, конечно, бред. Ну, в любом случае, пусть каждый пользуется своим языком, как хочет. Все эти языковые академии довольно редко могут именно изменить язык, поэтому если каким-то образом реформа приживётся, бог с ним, а коли не приживется, то тоже бог с ней. Всем добра! :) Слава Украине! 💙💛
"каждый пользуется своим языком, как хочет" - и никакая власть не должна навязывать обществу свои нормы, тем более под угрозой преследования и опасности для жизни.
@@liliyakutyayeva9736 а вы знаете, что тут за протесты бывает? Это у вас это можно а здесь может вся жизнь рухнуть, а результата ноль, такая вот безысходность😒
@@northwesternroots2054 а вы когда то видели что было на майдане? Знаете что такое небесная сотня? Вот в этом и есть разница между нами и вами . Вы боитесь , а люди жертвуют жизнью ради хорошей жизни и свободы . А что происходит на фронте ? Наши мужчины тоже могли сказать : да ну нафиг , лучше будем окуппацией россии чем идти на смерть .
Вообще не понимаю, какое отношение имеет те плохие вещи, что сделала страна к стандартным правилам языка. Не отрицаю, что то, что устраивает это ужасно и неправильно, но устоявшиеся правила нельзя нарушать, вы же не хотите быть безграмотными
I love Ukraine with all my heart even if I am from Spain. All the best for all the Ukrianians and all the Ukraine supporters who can read this. I love you all.
With all due respect Inna, I think I will still refer to it as Russia. I do call Putin 'Vlad the Impaled' sometimes. LOL!! I certainly won't correct anyone that does what you do. It's possible we will all refer to Russia as the spin off Oblasts, Krais, and other federal districts that form independent countries once it breaks up anyway. Time will tell. Old Russian enemy saying . . . "Мало чем отличается русский дурак от других типов. Но в других местах они не так преданы своему делу или так часто занимают высокие посты." 🙂
You are protecting your land. I used to live in Ukraine I dont earn much but I try to send a donation monthly to help. Because this is reality and I wonder where the money is going be smart how you donate this lady seems very geniune.
I hope this supremely important ‘change’ (especially, the one with the word "Russians"), aimed at depriving those Russians, who haven't done anything wrong and who do not support the war, of their dignity, helps you sleep better at night. Keep up the courage to engage in more such futile actions instead of doing something truly significant, like, for instance, resisting the war. З любовʼю з Донецької області)
I did this since feb 24th instinctually but i never expected it would become a rule in Ukrainian language. Also 0:06 every time you do this thing with your hands makes me smile! Every time!
Thank you for telling your subscribers about this official change, I had heard nothing about it until I watched you video. Despite the current rising cost of living, I have donated to the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council's ongoing project to provide helmets and other body armor to Ukrainians in need and I will continue to do so! Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
What about citizens who doesn't support putin's regime? Who support Ukraine and absolutely against this act of aggression? I know a lot of Russians who volunteers and support Ukrainian refugees, who really hates putin and his government, who was in a jail for being in opposition, but who still loves their Russian culture and honor their ancestors. Is that really fair (or worth it?) to call all of them facist too and "cancel" their identity just because part of their "compatriots" are evil or just stupid people? Is it ok to unite and humiliate people just on the basis of their nationality? I believe Ukraine and the rest should be above that. That's not the thing we all should spend energy fighting with, IMHO.
Dear Inna, this spelling change clearly isn't a fact, but bearing in mind all the heartbreak this war has caused, I'm not going to judge you. At the same time, please remember to take good care of yourself. Looking forward to upcoming videos about Ukrainian language and culture.
As a Russian, I find this war deplorable. Even though I don't live there any more, I feel in part responsible for my country's actions - just because of being from there. And the anger Ukrainians must feel against my countrymen is more than justified. But I am NOT a lowercase Russian. Hitler's countrymen are not lowercase Germans, and so forth. Once we begin to dehumanize an entire nation, an entire race, etc., murderous dictators begin to win over, regardless of their (lack of) success on the battlefield. Слава Україні 💙💛
Ukraine 🇺🇦 forces are still... or at least up until a few weeks ago bombing civilian residential buildings in RUSSIAN 🇷🇺 oriented cities. & this was happening for 8 years. Ever since the government was overthrown and a Western puppet state was established. The RUSSIA 🇷🇺 sympathizers from the Donbas region didn’t agree with this new regime and were more oriented towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺 ... hence they rebelled and refused to bow down to the new Kiev regime. The War has been going on for 8 years but RUSSIA 🇷🇺 finally got openly involved in february... The War ESCALATED & was promoted from Ukranian civil war to what could be considered an ex Soviet civil war. This is RUSSIAS 🇷🇺,,Cuban missile crisis”... in the 60s the usa 🇺🇸 was ready to start WWIII over this potential threat from the Soviet Union establishing heavy arms ,,close” to its borders.. now the turntables.. except this is much closer and from more sides pointing towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺... the usa 🇺🇸 got its way with a mere threat of all out WAR or as some call it ,,diplomacy” & Soviets backed off & WWIII was postponed. This time nato chose not to back off as the Soviets did last time, and the logical progression is WAR. The same way it would have been WAR had the Soviets decided to ignore usas 🇺🇸 safety concerns. But nobody wants or likes to look at things from multiple angles. Everybody likes to put themselves as well as their own Countrymen, the likeminded & allies on the moral high-ground & demonize dehumanize the opposite side. & This goes both ways
@@zx6r531 да что вы говорите.... С разных сторон хотите смотреть так смотрите с разных ,так как мнение что Украина бомбила рускоориентирование города ,это взгляд только с одной стороны . Посмотрите видео митинга из Донецка в 14 году , проукраинского митинга с украинскими флагами ,и разгонялся он силовыми структурами ,захватывающих в то время власть "рускоориентированих " так что ваш комментарий-помойка вашего телевизора Если конечно вы не бот
Germany after WWII was divided in several parts and the school curricula change since then, since kindergarden the children are tough about the genocide that they commited and they are not proud pf being germans. After ruZZia will be divided and Azov heroes can go to the remain little ruZZia and teach about the crimes that they commited nothing will change in ruZZian mainsets. And as an Argentinean I completily agreed with the lower case letter. People for that country are not humans.
it's so funny to see how she's trying to change the Ukrainian language reform into English bc the rule is spreading only in Ukraine, not in English speaking countries etc. So she has to teach y'all how to say it in her own language, not English🤓
That rules can pretty much be applied for a lot of other countries : russia, israël, united states, saudi arabia Ukraine, Palestine, Earth, Yemen Also, I understand that Ukraine and Ukrainian are suffering to this war, but I don't think it is ok to hate all russian, and the country itself. Those who are in fault are Putin and his supporters. For example : Polish people, and Poland doesn't hate Germany for what they have done but the Third Reich government. Russian are not responsible, for this war Putin it's not Russia against Ukraine, it's politicians against politicians. As Sartre said "When the wages war, it's the poor who die".
Thank you for the explanation Inna! In my family we call him putler or vlad the lad to use some humour against the fear he is trying to spread all over Europe. There are ways to do this for other repressive regimes too - use Burma instead of the junta's chosen name Myanmar, and North Korea instead of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) because they certainly aren't democratic, so they don't deserve that word. Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧❤🇺🇦
I support Ukrainian army because you have to defend yourselves from russia (in Italy we write sometimes ruzzia). I’m proud to help Ukraine and I think that it’s also important to share news and stories from Ukrainian medias to fight rashist propaganda. Слава Україні!
@@zx6r531 If you mean the s*viets, they also occupied the countries they went through and committed genocide on more than one occasion. My country was actually oppressed by the one of the allied powers. :c
Although not every russian supports it but many do, however, I’ve been doing it for a while and am glad it is official, this is the least we all must do
This war is poisoning the relationships among the communities in Eastern Europe. I come from Belarus and I feel terrible since the war broke out. I just hope one day everything will be sorted out.
This is not a serious rule. I think your adjectives and nationalities have always been lowercased. In the 21st century it is no longer fashionable to express racism and hate on Orcs. Look at Oblivion or Might and Magic VIII: orcs and dark elves walk the streets of towns.
Just about every country in the world can be seen by someone as being just as bad as the above mentioned enemy. All countries began as empires. At least, I can't think of one that didn't.
Not all russians do the support the war, my Russian wife hates Putin (not only for the war with Ukraine but also, there are a lots of reasons to hate Russian government). But yes, especially the older generation in Russia is very fascist or better to say: brainwashed. The younger generation is quite diverse, but of course there are also a lot of nationalistic idiots with no brain. This whole war is a tragedy and I just hope that Putin and also Russia will get what they deserve. My sympathy is to Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
People can do whatever they want with their own language. But changing the name of the country you don't belong to in the language that is not your native is ridiculous. This war will end someday, but unless Ukrainians and Russians stop breeding hate against each other, such wars will keep happening. Just watch BadComedian's last video (that's for everyone who understands Russian). This change is just another drop in a huge sea of hate propaganda. I subscribed to this channel to learn Ukrainian, to communicate to Ukrainians in their language, because most of them speak or at least understand mine, I hoped to visit Ukraine, to help with rebuilding the cities etc., but the more of such videos, and comments, I see, the more I realise that it just makes no sense. People want the physical war to stop, but not the verbal war, which doesn't seem to ever end, and this will only bring about more wars. It was very educational to watch your videos, and I want to thank you for all the hard work you put into your channel. I wish all the best to Ukraine and Ukrainians, I have friends there, and of course I never wanted this war to start in the first place, but this just doesn't make sense for me anymore.
in the same time russians seriouly insist on calling belarus belorussia, or use moldavia instead of moldova, turkmenia instead of turkmenistan etc lol and about badcomedian, he says that russian and ukrainian propagandas are the same and that's just a bunch of capitalists fighting this war, really? did ukraine fight any imperialistic war on russia as the latter did a lot? does ukraine destroy any russian city? using his logic, you can easily say "jewish and german propaganda was equally bad in reich! it was just oligarchs fighting for resourses! both parties are guilty!", pretty much a "soft" way to blame the victim
@@rayhimmel7167 I don't know who are those Russians who "insist", for most people it's only a matter of habit, how they are used to say. Not many people like changes. For myself I can say that I say Belarus, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc, and I barely hear "Turkmenia" btw. Moreover, the only variant of the words like Украина and украинский that I've ever heard in my life before this war is и-stressed, not a-stressed, and it was a surprise for me that so many people stress "a". And I come from a really small town, only 20k people (with only one small Z-banner in the place where one enters the town, just to stick to these stupid rules). So the tendencies you described are not that common, and people are different. As to how you understood this video, this is clearly not what Zhenya intended to say. The main point is that this hatred was boiling on both sides for years and years, it started way before 2014, and it barely comes from the people themselves. I know how bad imperialism was to hundreds of nations on the territory of the former soviet republics, every intelligent person knows that (including Zhenya), my own family suffered enough. But spreading hatred won't make Russians (and people who think they are Russian) more peaceful and smart.
I didn't know Ukraine/ian good enough to know this. But actually, as much as I've considered myself ally of Ukrainians since 2013/4, and we have no upper and lower case letters in Cantonese, I've used an older name for russia 羅剎 very frequently in this context. Definitely, the warring state (russian fed) would not like this name if I were a foreign diplomat. I mean, I accept this theory as a matter of sentiments. It's pretty much just free speech, something that russian fed doesn't like and doesn't want everybody except themselves have. Similar archaic country names existed for England 英吉利, Spain, and Portugal, and in fact Spain 西班牙 and Portugal 葡萄牙 are still in their original "names" that still contain a character "tooth". Even the Jews are still called 猶太人 (with an animal radical), but so far Spain, Portugal and Israel have not criticized our translations/have accepted them. I also accept that interacting with different foreigners is almost like diplomacy, almost like "my" diplomacy or Ukraine's. Different people have sentiments and a lot of dislikes and likes. I have to be understanding.
congratulations to you my friend, you are an ally of ukraine since 2014, this means you are an ally of illegal government, n@zis and genocide against Donbas people.
After second world war 2 Polish people, after not easy experience (and I put it mildly) with Germans changed the rule of writing: while all nationalities are written with the capital first latter, 'niemcy' is a perfectly fine writing for Germans in Polish. But ad rem: changing rules like that, from the top to the bottom is something that I, as a amateur lingust, am strongly against. Dont get me wrong, I agree with the change but I believe that marking old spelling as 'wrong' or 'mistake' is incorrect.
@@briannajeremy2311 TBH I don't know, I don't read that much Polish as I used to. But the small letter version was (and probably still is) at older generation. I was born circa 40 years after the war and from I remember it was always 50/50 of the contemporary texts writtten by people my age. And BTW 'niemcy' etymology is tracked to 'mute' as they w'could bit be understood. It was historically applied to all Germanic people (there used to be somehow sizeable colonies of Dutch speakers, their language is an almost extinct Wilamowicean BTW) and French people were sometimes called 'paryscy niemcy' ('Germans from the Paris')
In the start of this war my heart was fully with you. For many years I used to be again Putin. But thank you for changing my mind. Thank you for calling all my entire nation "fascist". You all showed your real face. And helped to choose the right side for many simple Russians as me Z
russian people allow this stain to exist. There's more of you, you can solve the problem but, you don't. Either you agree with him or too scared to do anything about it, your choice.
You can't write rules for other languages. And saying "these country and this people are fascist" is wrong too an it's fascist. This is too close to being xenophobic. Should we do the same with the US, the UK, Japan, China, France, Spain, etc...? I don't agree with Bush, the Tory's, Franco, Hitler, Muzzolini, etc... I don't think they are all the same. I understand the situation, but this is wrong. It's the same with writing "god" instead of "God". I'm an atheist and I write God because it's a name, and you have to write it like that; you only write the gods because they are not names.
What am I reading here? Germans during Hitler were Nazis. Nothing to be ashamed of calling fascists fascists. It's not xenophobic but an objective view on the situation.
красотуля, а сделай будь ласка каст что такое АТО, кто и когда его объявил, и главное против КОГО оно было направлено, и куда ваши, как ты сказала, "ангелы" полетели на летаках да танках. Нехорошо же друзей в неведении держать.
Анте Павелић и Степан Бандера, јесу то слична искуства дефинитивно. Етничко чишћење, логори (главни Јасеновац). Убиства, клања, одошко оштро оруђе са специфичним именом и наменом. Наравно не може се поредити, нацизам није био до те мере заступљен у Украјини, али зато у нацизам Хрватској пуном паром 100%. Подршка нацизму народа НДХ и дочек добродошлице војске немачке и нациста у Загребу са много цвећа. Али на вашу жалост сте поражени у оба светска рата то јест војна обрачуна. И Ваш Берлин је био сравњен са земљом. За свој пораз у рату сте награђени аутономијом и ослобођењем од Аустро-Угарске коју вам је пружила Краљевина
in English? Ukraine can mandate anything within Ukraine, including changing language to fit current political agenda even when she should be rather fight actual war and it is far more similar to stuff from Soviet era when mandating usage of language and names were based more on will of party officials than actual facts on the ground, but its there decision but nothing Ukrainian state and language academy decrees has no influence on other languages rule and that includes English and written name of person or state and nation, even those you don't like, with lower case is a/ rude and b/ against both natural and official rules of almost every language. If Russia decreed Ukrainians don't deserve capital it would be rightly considered theatrics and ridiculous act of dictatorship and insult to all Ukrainians.
Dry your eyes - imagine complaining about it being 'rude' to not capitalise the name of a terrorist state which is invading and destroying many parts of Ukraine. Focus on what's important. Also, try using more punctuation like full stops if you're so worried about using languages correctly.
@@iontach9844 Back in 2008 when Georgia was attacked, analysts as well as some observant people were warning that Ukraine will be Kremlin's next target. Did Ukrainians begin to prepare for these events? No, they were bragging about how ancient and great they are as opposed to Eastern sub-nation. Had Israelis allowed themselves that attitude, they'd be thrown out to sea back in 1947 by the invading Arab armies. I mean "Focus on what's important". And finally, levity on Ukrainian side doesn't excuse the aggressor in any way.
@@dymytryruban4324 You can't compare the two situations since many of the Israelis are actually land grabbers from Europe who stole the property and land of indigenous Palestinians. Who is excusing the Russian aggressor? Certainly not me. I think you misunderstood my whole comment.
Perfect. Some words we just have to use, but we don't have to give them the respect of commanding a capital letter. Good work :-) Anyway, I find mordor and orcs are pretty good substitutes.
I have used all sorts of words since the beginning of this war. rasha, ruzzia, mordor, orcland. Orcs, zombies, ruskies. But when I'm talking about good Russians I use capital R. Yes, there are few of them.
I know that behind all of your recent videos is a lot of hate for Russia and Russians, but politicizing language and grammar is far too much. When you look back at this time in the future, you will see how crazy this all looks. Language is not guilty for the work of bad politicians so stop it.
Wow! I’ve been doing that for a long time. I don’t feel right putting a capital letter on any of those words. Also I say: “little man putin” and “the ruskins” I Absolutely Love You Sweetheart! ✨♥️✨ Stay Safe! 🌹🌹🌹 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Do you know if there is a way to change the auto-capitalization rules on iPhone? These words always autocorrect to uppercase and I have to manually correct them every time.
I've preferred to completely ignore their made-up name of "russia" and just refer to it as "Muscovy". Though perhaps that one should also be lower case now?
Well, Ruzzia (today) under Poopin is certainly different than Russia 30 years ago, when they weren't fascist, belligerent, etc, and they had peace with their neighbours. I don't see anything wrong in using creative spelling in its proper context, but there are still valuable Russian contributions to literature, music, art, and all Russians are not evil people who support this war of aggression and the ruzzian war crimes.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 forces are still... or at least up until a few weeks ago bombing civilian residential buildings in RUSSIAN 🇷🇺 oriented cities. & this was happening for 8 years. Ever since the government was overthrown and a Western puppet state was established. The RUSSIA 🇷🇺 sympathizers from the Donbas region didn’t agree with this new regime and were more oriented towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺 ... hence they rebelled and refused to bow down to the new Kiev regime. The War has been going on for 8 years but RUSSIA 🇷🇺 finally got openly involved in february... The War ESCALATED & was promoted from Ukranian civil war to what could be considered an ex Soviet civil war. But in reality a Nato vs Russia proxy war. While Nato isn’t openly intervening. But by sending troops to as if they’re Ukrainian units This is RUSSIAS 🇷🇺,,Cuban missile crisis”... in the 60s the usa 🇺🇸 was ready to start WWIII over this potential threat from the Soviet Union establishing heavy arms ,,close” to its borders.. now the turntables.. except this is much closer and from more sides pointing towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺... the usa 🇺🇸 got its way with a mere threat of all out WAR or as some call it ,,diplomacy” & Soviets backed off & WWIII was postponed. This time nato chose not to back off as the Soviets did last time, and the logical progression is WAR. The same way it would have been WAR had the Soviets decided to ignore usas 🇺🇸 safety concerns. But nobody wants or likes to look at things from multiple angles. Everybody likes to put themselves as well as their own Countrymen, the likeminded & allies on the moral high-ground & demonize dehumanize the opposite side. & This goes both ways
@@zx6r531 Yes, I agree with you. I'm thinking more about seeing both sides of ww2. Most ppl choose to only see one side. russia has murdered millions of ppl throughout history but never seems to pay for their crimes. At least ppl are seeing how horrible russia is. Long live Ukraine!
@@jakemakov1047 Yes, the Holodomor and deportations under Stalin will never be forgotten. Russification of Ukraine really started under Tsar Peter and Catherine II. So, it has actually been going on for centuries.
It's making a fair point. Ukraine isn't telling the whole world what it must or must not do, it's kind of making its own statement about how Ukraine should not be expected to give any part of its own culture up, such as its own language, literature, and grammar. Or even worse, its own land and national identity! Quite clever really! Inna, your flowers there are wonderful and a lovely way to brighten your day! Mother Nature is such a clever woman, growing things of such beauty 😉 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 💙💛
Я знаю одну гарну жінку, яку таку хорошу людину звати Ірина. Їй сумно в Америці через війну. Я зроблю все, що зможу, для неї та її сина. Я молюся, щоб колись вона стала моєю дружиною.
My late Dido was born in Karpiliwka, UA in 1927 and my late Baba was born in Yelnya, RU in 1940. Keeping up on the news all throughout my childhood into adulthood and having a family friend and classmate that we would call on Sundays until we lost contact. It hurts so much to see what putler has been doing to so many innocent people over his reign as dictator. I pray for an end to this and for our true freedom to begin. Слава Україні! Героєм Слава! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Thank you for the language update. I have written about 15 poems in support of Ukraine so far. I have changed the names to russia and putin in support of reduction of status. I also donate to Stand with Ukraine on a regular basis. Some of poems mention sergei lavrov and Patriach, kirill whose names I have also demoted to lower case. I very much appreciate your language videos! I Do hope to visit Ukraine after your victory to meet my new friends, Anzhela Maslennikova and Viacheslav Stelmakh in person!!
We have the same problem with being Canadian - we are often called Americans when travelling so you will often see Canadian flags on our luggage and backpacks.
Thank you for the official permission to use lower case and "putler".... I confess I have been referring to him as "pooty" since even before the war began. Slava Ukraini!
The armed forces of Ukraine will liberate Kherson soon; I can't bear having russians occupy any areas, or having Ukrainians behind enemy lines. That is why support for armed forces is so important. Слава Україні!
hahaha, honestly where are you from to be this naive and believe such uranian propaganda that they are taking Kherson, they are not even close, hundreds of ukhanian soldiers are dying every day when they attempt any counter attack, the bitter truth for you is that salo uranila will never take Kherson, and dear Irochka will never go back to live there because she is an aggressive bandera supporter and a little n@zi, all her bs and ill minded Russophobia is on the internet and it is all downloaded and kept by people like me to make sure she can't change coats in the future and pretend like she is friendly to Russians when Russia finally liberates the last villages of Lvov Region up to the Polish border, and for you, Salo Ukhani
You call an entire nation as fascists? Without knowing what many people in Russia think about this chaos and totally against the war? Interesting. Doesn't it makes you a fascist yourself also? Because of people like you, opinion of adequate russian people about Ukraine just getting worse and worse.
No. Proper nouns are capitalized, period. I will write how I want to; you will write how you want to.
russia anything doesn't deserve the respect of being treated as a proper noun for all of the hurt they brought to Ukraine
@@IzzyChopChop One of my best friends is Russian and his family does not support this conflict.
@@IzzyChopChop And just so you know…both their governments are shitty. Racism, nationalism and propaganda run rampant on that side of Europe. They need to quit pointing fingers and find middle ground before Eastern Europe is flattened.
@@Violingirl698 IT'S A WAR, NOT SOME "CONFLICT"
@@IzzyChopChop I use those words interchangeably. I do NOT agree with what’s happening so save the uppercase yelling for someone who does. My closest friend is Russian, so seeing these comments generalizing them like this makes me sad.
I hope I get to visit Ukraine soon. The country and its people are beautiful. My big regret is I didn't really know that until this stupid war started. ):
I think many beautiful People are outside Ukrain right now, working like hell to help their Motherland. I wouldn't do the same for Fascia. Slava Ukraine ✌❤
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You'll be surpised when you'll do so, how it is different from the west propaganda.😂
What a ridiculous thing to do. The propaganda is wild these days....
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I understand the motivation (any claim for having an understanding how Ukrainians feel would be presumptuous!). However the history of my country, Germany, shows that the willingness of using denigrating features of language for a “good cause” often is followed by uses one hadn't intended. Next time maybe someone finds it ok to write Kenyan or African in small letters, or Jews or Christian. It seems that it is difficult to limit such "Rule-bending" to the intended "good cause" because there are always people who won’t or are unable to do it “responsiblly”. But again I must emphasize that I have no intention to criticize this! As I write this I am sitting on my balcony with no threat to my or my loved ones well-being! I only send you my love and my best wishes and assure you that my heart and my thoughts are with you literally by the day and the minute!
You need to understand in this case the Ukrainian language has more context to it as it was the first things Lenin assaulted when they took over Ukraine's provisional government in 1918.
The Ukrainian language, literature and anything culturally Ukrainian was banned by the Politburo. In order to facilitate the holodomor, Stalin first got rid of the intellectuals who promoted Ukrainian culture.
I think the Ukrainians have had enough of Sovietization/Russification up to now and need to get rid of anything reminiscent of Russian imperialism.
I concur. It is sad to see an amateur language channel, which not so long ago would discuss practicalities of Russian language use in Ukraine now becoming a bittered, politicized attempt at anti-Russian propaganda. Nie tędy droga.
@@SzalonyKucharz Dear Szalony Kucharz Troll. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Troll in possession of a brain is in want of more brain. However, life is hard when one is so poor that one can't even afford manners! So you may rest assured of my undivided pity! Though I am not religious I put in a prayer for the people around you. They’ll need it!
@@boredgrass Would you care to elaborate why you're calling me a troll or is beyond your capability?
@@SzalonyKucharz Read your reply and ask an adult about presumptuous and condescending behaviour.
I visited Ukraine back in 2018 , such a beautiful country and to see it now in ruins really breaks my heart , hoping this stupid war ends soon and Ukraine will be rebuild back to it's former Glory
Every month I make donations to Ukrainian charities: 60% goes to those who support the army and 40% to those who are more focus on giving humanitarian help. Normally Come back alive and Razom but I sometimes share it with others charities that Ukrainian journalists trust and Prytula is one of them. I think everyone should help Ukraine somehow. It doesn't matter how much. Read, share, inform. Solidarity it's what makes us human. The civilized people won't give up on Ukraine and I hope our governments won't either. Stand with Ukraine!
Haha money straight into a corrupt politicians pocket😂
It seems kind of silly to make a rule like that for the language, although I don't think the leader of the war even deserves to be named at all. With this rule, I feel like it punishes the citizens of the country who for the majority, don't support the war. My cousins on my dad's side were saddened when this war began because my great grandpa was born in Tchortoryya in 1881 which wasn't part of Ukraine until the 1990s and as a Jew he probably wasn't treated well in his own country of birth. He immigrated to Montreal in 1913. My great grandma, great aunt and great uncle immigrated to Montreal and joined him the following year. My grandpa was born in Montreal in 1914 as the first of the immediate family born in Canada. Love to all Ukrainians!
It’s not silly. Any resistance, even if it’s grammatical is still resistance. Using lower case letters indicates one’s empathy for Ukrainians and outrage at russia.
It is tbh
I agree with you. Selective grammar based on politics is always stupid. Language itself is innocent.
I agree tbh. It won't really solve anything either. If we're gonna do that, then we also need to start typing 'america', 'britain', and 'france' instead lol. It unfortunately won't stop those countries from invading and pillaging everywhere just as it won't stop Russia either. Then again, knowing many Russians, they'll probably get really offended which is funny.
We in America still use the name of a Revolutionary War general who defected to the British as a synonym for "traitor". I'd think us Americans have no room to talk.
I have friends in Kiev and in Moscow. They are all very close and very kind friends. My friend Masha in Moscow is such a great soul and against the war and the government. I never will stop to love her, like i love my friends musicians in Kiev. I do'nt want this war in my heart. I want to look at every single human, who he ist.
Are you moscovite? It's Kyiv.
@@andrewshepitko6354 i am swiss and speak normally Swiss German
@@sf4432 but we don't call your country Frizz when you call Kyiv as Kiev
@@andrewshepitko6354 you can call it like you want to, as long as your intention intention is not mean and only because you don't know better. And my Intention was not mean. Перепрошую і відтепер називатиму Київ. Не важливо, які букви ти використовуєш, а те, як виглядає твоє серце. точка.
@@andrewshepitko6354 хрюкни :)
isn't that racist?
Based nickname
Two of my friends from school got really excited because their dad is coming to America, and they haven’t seen him since the war started because he’s in the Ukrainian military. I was thinking when the war is over, hopefully soon, I could visit Ukraine. That is a goal I would like to achieve when I’m older, stay safe and Slava Ukraini
Lol this rule is kind of stupid. Not that I support Russia but man such a rule is just pathetic.
I understand that you are at war. But to start writing Russian with a lower case for that is to encourage Russophobia. Not all Russians agree with the war. In addition, you must not forget that percentage of the population of Ukraine that has dual citizenship, Ukrainian and Russian. The more Russophobia there is in Ukraine, the more the Donbass people will want to be part of Russia and not of a country that despises them.
Sometimes you need to think that Ukrainians who received such "russian passport" did it because they were forced to!!! This was especially true in the occupied Donbas region.
And an unfortunate and hurtful truth is that there are a small number of Ukrainians, with Ukrainian passport and who were born on Ukrainian territory, who ate up the russian propaganda growing up and are now on the russian's side. These people don't deserve Ukrainian citizenship, if they still have it. Luckily, that number is very small
@@IzzyChopChop occupied by whom?
I sympathise but this is just propaganda. I’m not writing Russia ‘russia’ any more than I’m writing China ‘china’ or USA ‘usa’. It’s just silly and isn’t helping anyone.
If anything it makes things worse.
Їди та зкажи цей льодом в Бахмути....
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My family lived in India, and lived through a period of war with its neighbour, Pakistan.
This attack on language seems very strange and almost dangerous as it would antagonize 8 million people in Ukraine who would ethically be Russian and speak Russian as well.
In India during the war, despite the horrors and senselessness of it,
The Urdu language, being the language of Pakistan was treated the same as any other language in India.
All these convoluted rules purely in spite of a language seems foolish. And might even Justify Russian Propaganda.
I... no? I'm gonna call Russia Russia... it is literally Russia.
Language is neutral. It is just a tool. We know what Putin is doing is inexcusable. And we want to see the Russian army go back to Russia. However, changing spelling rules won’t in reality do anything. And the Russian language in Russia itself is not going to be affected by this policy. It would be like Great Britain retaliating against the U.S. for something by changing a few spelling and grammar rules or refusing to say/ write certain words or phrases.
My wife is from Ukraine and she wants Russia to stop the killing and go home. However, I don’t think Putin cares about language changes in Ukraine. What needs to happen instead is to provide Ukraine with enough help to drive Russia out of the country.
Your answer will change once you finish high school.
Right, language is a tool. As any other tool it can and should be adjusted just to make the job done. And a tool isn't a holy relic. Btw check out the word "rashism" in Wikipedia...
@@AcroDroneCanada And your answer will change once you get out of diapers. For your information, I am a baby boomer. And language is a way of communicating. It is not partial to who is winning the war.
@@irishchocolate3872 "won't do anything"? Of course it does.
"Language is neutral." Hard to not get that it's symbolic and symbols are a way to express yourself and important.
If you thinks words aren't important in war then it's on you but having this point of view is really weird.
@@Bob-qu4wc You don’t understand. The people behind the language that are using the words are not neutral. The language itself doesn’t start wars. It is the people behind the language that do.
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Hello. I want very badly to learn Ukrainian language.I bought a kindle book which was OK, but then I discovered you videos.I think they are done very well. I've only gotten as far as learning the alphabet, but I've got it down! The letter names and the sounds. I don't know what what video to watch next. I don't think they are in order here on youtube. Could you tell me what order to watch the lessons in......or maybe just the next 10? Thank you very much. By the way, it is music they motivated me too.
I do support Ukraine in this war and I truly hope that this nightmare will be over soon. However I disagree with this such changings in the language for a few reasons. First of all, not all Russians support this war and I think it's unfair to generalise. Second of all, why don't we condemn other wars and other aggressive countries? Palestinians have been suffering for so long and nobody cares to critcise Israel. Also what the US have done in countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq... I just don't think it's fair to admonish some and excuse others... Of course you as Ukrainian care most about your country, which is totally understandable, but I mean others. And I'll repeat it once again so that nobody twists my words or takes them out of the context... I DO NOT support Russian politics. I'm just trying to be fair and sympathize with all victims. And btw when Russia attacked Syria just some years ago, nobody seemed to care...
Ukraine 🇺🇦 had a civil war with the Donbas region in the East against Russian oriented 🇷🇺 rebels who did not support the new Kiev regime ever since the western puppet government overthrew & gained power.
Nobody cared & now everybody thinks the war just started in February... But what happened is that Russia just openly joined in on the fun.
Russia has done this before. The s*viets are an example but nobody seems to care.
EXACTLY!! And I hope she knows Ukraine’s government is crap too. Racism and propaganda run rampant on both sides not just Russia. And in my opinion nobody cares about those other countries because they aren’t white.
For what it's worth a lot of us _did_ care about the incidents you say "no one" cared or cares about.
Russia, Russian Federation, Russian, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
while i am very sorry about what's happening to Ukrainian people and what Putin has done to your people, changing to lower case, doesn't solve the situation and just makes Ukrainians look petty. names of people and places are always capitalized. we don't have to like the person or place for it to be capitalized. but thank you for your video and information.
Are you kidding me? Ukraine is not being petty. Decapitalising the words is an act of resistance. What is petty is when putin invades sovereign Ukraine because he can't handle the fact the soviet union is long gone.
@@iontach9844 thank you for your comment iontach. you say "Decapitalising the words is an act of resistance." resistance is a human feeling and act, where language and writing is politically neutral, made so by the fact it's not a alive and can't reason. if the act of Decapitating had an outcome favorable to the Ukrainians, there would be no need for a hot war now. on top of all this, you have every google algorithm and Spell checker in the world, putting a red line under those uncapitalize words, why? because it's wrong. All the best to you and your family.
I have been seeing this for some time and I assumed that to be the case, putting it to use here as well. Thank you for all of your videos. Glory to the heroes!
I get the sentiment behind it, but this is silly and petty in my opinion. To each their own.
Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Ну, океюшки, хотя решение довольно странное. Я, конечно, войну не поддерживаю и всеми руками за перемогу України, однако имя собственное писать с большой буквы это не проявление уважения. Понимаю, конечно, что реформа эта скорее чисто символическая и, вероятно, является просто актом солидарности, но всё-таки чисто с научной точки зрения это, конечно, бред. Ну, в любом случае, пусть каждый пользуется своим языком, как хочет. Все эти языковые академии довольно редко могут именно изменить язык, поэтому если каким-то образом реформа приживётся, бог с ним, а коли не приживется, то тоже бог с ней. Всем добра! :)
Слава Украине! 💙💛
Надо тоже внести изменения в русский язык, слово «бред» поменять на слово «ураина». 😂 смысл не поменяется
"каждый пользуется своим языком, как хочет" - и никакая власть не должна навязывать обществу свои нормы, тем более под угрозой преследования и опасности для жизни.
Таким образом вы дескредитируете всех россиян, которым больно и которые не хотят того, что происходит. Чего вы хотите этим добиться?
Что то я не видела ваших руских протестов ? Толк о единичные пикеты и группки по 15 человек.
@@liliyakutyayeva9736 а вы знаете, что тут за протесты бывает? Это у вас это можно а здесь может вся жизнь рухнуть, а результата ноль, такая вот безысходность😒
@@northwesternroots2054 а вы когда то видели что было на майдане? Знаете что такое небесная сотня? Вот в этом и есть разница между нами и вами . Вы боитесь , а люди жертвуют жизнью ради хорошей жизни и свободы . А что происходит на фронте ? Наши мужчины тоже могли сказать : да ну нафиг , лучше будем окуппацией россии чем идти на смерть .
@@liliyakutyayeva9736 а вы бы пожертвовали? Легко так сказать в комментариях, а когда под дулом пистолета совсем другие мысли будут крутиться
@@northwesternroots2054 да все украинцы и моя нация жертвовали на Майдане! Да моя семья вся в Украине ! И никуда не бежала !
Вообще не понимаю, какое отношение имеет те плохие вещи, что сделала страна к стандартным правилам языка. Не отрицаю, что то, что устраивает это ужасно и неправильно, но устоявшиеся правила нельзя нарушать, вы же не хотите быть безграмотными
Правила изменились. Теперь безграмотны те, кто пишет по-украински указанные слова с большой буквы
I love Ukraine with all my heart even if I am from Spain. All the best for all the Ukrianians and all the Ukraine supporters who can read this. I love you all.
Thank you for your good words! Blessings to you 🙌
@@Reny.._23_ Thank you mate! 😊 Same for you!
@@JaviBornToRock thank you ☺️
With all due respect Inna, I think I will still refer to it as Russia. I do call Putin 'Vlad the Impaled' sometimes. LOL!! I certainly won't correct anyone that does what you do. It's possible we will all refer to Russia as the spin off Oblasts, Krais, and other federal districts that form independent countries once it breaks up anyway. Time will tell. Old Russian enemy saying . . . "Мало чем отличается русский дурак от других типов. Но в других местах они не так преданы своему делу или так часто занимают высокие посты." 🙂
Адекватные люди понимают, что это смешно 😂
Thank you! Stay brave! Slava Ukraini! Smertʹ voroham!
could you link a source please? just curious lol!
You are protecting your land. I used to live in Ukraine I dont earn much but I try to send a donation monthly to help. Because this is reality and I wonder where the money is going be smart how you donate this lady seems very geniune.
I hope this supremely important ‘change’ (especially, the one with the word "Russians"), aimed at depriving those Russians, who haven't done anything wrong and who do not support the war, of their dignity, helps you sleep better at night. Keep up the courage to engage in more such futile actions instead of doing something truly significant, like, for instance, resisting the war. З любовʼю з Донецької області)
I love your necklace! I would love to get one. Is there someone I can support by buying one?
I did this since feb 24th instinctually but i never expected it would become a rule in Ukrainian language. Also 0:06 every time you do this thing with your hands makes me smile! Every time!
Thank you for telling your subscribers about this official change, I had heard nothing about it until I watched you video. Despite the current rising cost of living, I have donated to the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council's ongoing project to provide helmets and other body armor to Ukrainians in need and I will continue to do so! Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
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It may seem small or silly to some, but I totally agree. Any one person or country that is not proper, doesn't deserve proper case naming.
Let’s write united states, america and uk then, ok? Deal?
@@JR-yp1hf sure seems "germany" would have to be on that list...
@@JR-yp1hf don't compare these countries to russia. Don't embarass yourself.
@@JR-yp1hf Do whatever you want j r, nobody cares.
@@alessandropizzotti932 Yeah, truth is painful, but anyway, try to calm your tits. 😁
What about citizens who doesn't support putin's regime? Who support Ukraine and absolutely against this act of aggression?
I know a lot of Russians who volunteers and support Ukrainian refugees, who really hates putin and his government, who was in a jail for being in opposition, but who still loves their Russian culture and honor their ancestors. Is that really fair (or worth it?) to call all of them facist too and "cancel" their identity just because part of their "compatriots" are evil or just stupid people? Is it ok to unite and humiliate people just on the basis of their nationality? I believe Ukraine and the rest should be above that. That's not the thing we all should spend energy fighting with, IMHO.
Dear Inna, this spelling change clearly isn't a fact, but bearing in mind all the heartbreak this war has caused, I'm not going to judge you. At the same time, please remember to take good care of yourself. Looking forward to upcoming videos about Ukrainian language and culture.
Nice video, thanks a lot
The more I watch this video the more I get Putin's point😀
100%
Yes.
As a Russian, I find this war deplorable. Even though I don't live there any more, I feel in part responsible for my country's actions - just because of being from there. And the anger Ukrainians must feel against my countrymen is more than justified. But I am NOT a lowercase Russian. Hitler's countrymen are not lowercase Germans, and so forth. Once we begin to dehumanize an entire nation, an entire race, etc., murderous dictators begin to win over, regardless of their (lack of) success on the battlefield. Слава Україні 💙💛
Ukraine 🇺🇦 forces are still... or at least up until a few weeks ago bombing civilian residential buildings in RUSSIAN 🇷🇺 oriented cities. & this was happening for 8 years. Ever since the government was overthrown and a Western puppet state was established. The RUSSIA 🇷🇺 sympathizers from the Donbas region didn’t agree with this new regime and were more oriented towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺 ... hence they rebelled and refused to bow down to the new Kiev regime.
The War has been going on for 8 years but RUSSIA 🇷🇺 finally got openly involved in february... The War ESCALATED & was promoted from Ukranian civil war to what could be considered an ex Soviet civil war.
This is RUSSIAS 🇷🇺,,Cuban missile crisis”... in the 60s the usa 🇺🇸 was ready to start WWIII over this potential threat from the Soviet Union establishing heavy arms ,,close” to its borders.. now the turntables.. except this is much closer and from more sides pointing towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺... the usa 🇺🇸 got its way with a mere threat of all out WAR or as some call it ,,diplomacy” & Soviets backed off & WWIII was postponed.
This time nato chose not to back off as the Soviets did last time, and the logical progression is WAR. The same way it would have been WAR had the Soviets decided to ignore usas 🇺🇸 safety concerns.
But nobody wants or likes to look at things from multiple angles. Everybody likes to put themselves as well as their own Countrymen, the likeminded & allies on the moral high-ground & demonize dehumanize
the opposite side. & This goes both ways
You forgot the s*viets. They committed horrific crimes against humanity and genocide.
@@zx6r531 да что вы говорите.... С разных сторон хотите смотреть так смотрите с разных ,так как мнение что Украина бомбила рускоориентирование города ,это взгляд только с одной стороны . Посмотрите видео митинга из Донецка в 14 году , проукраинского митинга с украинскими флагами ,и разгонялся он силовыми структурами ,захватывающих в то время власть "рускоориентированих " так что ваш комментарий-помойка вашего телевизора
Если конечно вы не бот
Germany after WWII was divided in several parts and the school curricula change since then, since kindergarden the children are tough about the genocide that they commited and they are not proud pf being germans. After ruZZia will be divided and Azov heroes can go to the remain little ruZZia and teach about the crimes that they commited nothing will change in ruZZian mainsets. And as an Argentinean I completily agreed with the lower case letter. People for that country are not humans.
@@melinsau You sound gross. Despite what their government is doing Russian people are still humans.
it's so funny to see how she's trying to change the Ukrainian language reform into English bc the rule is spreading only in Ukraine, not in English speaking countries etc. So she has to teach y'all how to say it in her own language, not English🤓
This is just a complete insanity. 🤑
That rules can pretty much be applied for a lot of other countries :
russia, israël, united states, saudi arabia
Ukraine, Palestine, Earth, Yemen
Also, I understand that Ukraine and Ukrainian are suffering to this war, but I don't think it is ok to hate all russian, and the country itself. Those who are in fault are Putin and his supporters.
For example : Polish people, and Poland doesn't hate Germany for what they have done but the Third Reich government.
Russian are not responsible, for this war Putin it's not Russia against Ukraine, it's politicians against politicians.
As Sartre said "When the wages war, it's the poor who die".
The second link in the description doesn't work! I really want to support the army of Ukraine!
Thank you for the explanation Inna! In my family we call him putler or vlad the lad to use some humour against the fear he is trying to spread all over Europe. There are ways to do this for other repressive regimes too - use Burma instead of the junta's chosen name Myanmar, and North Korea instead of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) because they certainly aren't democratic, so they don't deserve that word. Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧❤🇺🇦
😂😂😂 say hello to BoJo
How about calling him mini Stalin
I support Ukrainian army because you have to defend yourselves from russia
(in Italy we write sometimes ruzzia).
I’m proud to help Ukraine and I think that it’s also important to share news and stories from Ukrainian medias to fight rashist propaganda.
Слава Україні!
Benito Mussolini, Stepan Bandera, Ante Pavelić... Adolf Hitler. All for 1 & 1 for all. Applies to this very day.
And I LOVE Italia!! Glad to have had the opportunity of visiting there twice and even meeting Pope John Paul II!
@@zx6r531 Also, Stalin. he did horrible things as well.
@@jakemakov1047 Yes. Like liberating Europe from Nazi germany.
@@zx6r531 If you mean the s*viets, they also occupied the countries they went through and committed genocide on more than one occasion. My country was actually oppressed by the one of the allied powers. :c
Although not every russian supports it but many do, however, I’ve been doing it for a while and am glad it is official, this is the least we all must do
@@frontgrad newly created channel (barely a month old) with a ruZZian name by a ruZZian troll farm falsely declaring to be from Spain.
This war is poisoning the relationships among the communities in Eastern Europe. I come from Belarus and I feel terrible since the war broke out. I just hope one day everything will be sorted out.
This is not a serious rule. I think your adjectives and nationalities have always been lowercased. In the 21st century it is no longer fashionable to express racism and hate on Orcs. Look at Oblivion or Might and Magic VIII: orcs and dark elves walk the streets of towns.
Just about every country in the world can be seen by someone as being just as bad as the above mentioned enemy. All countries began as empires. At least, I can't think of one that didn't.
Not all russians do the support the war, my Russian wife hates Putin (not only for the war with Ukraine but also, there are a lots of reasons to hate Russian government). But yes, especially the older generation in Russia is very fascist or better to say: brainwashed. The younger generation is quite diverse, but of course there are also a lot of nationalistic idiots with no brain. This whole war is a tragedy and I just hope that Putin and also Russia will get what they deserve. My sympathy is to Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
I have been doing this for awhile, I entered them into my phones dictionary so it never tries to auto correct it to the capitalise it.
People can do whatever they want with their own language. But changing the name of the country you don't belong to in the language that is not your native is ridiculous.
This war will end someday, but unless Ukrainians and Russians stop breeding hate against each other, such wars will keep happening.
Just watch BadComedian's last video (that's for everyone who understands Russian). This change is just another drop in a huge sea of hate propaganda.
I subscribed to this channel to learn Ukrainian, to communicate to Ukrainians in their language, because most of them speak or at least understand mine, I hoped to visit Ukraine, to help with rebuilding the cities etc., but the more of such videos, and comments, I see, the more I realise that it just makes no sense. People want the physical war to stop, but not the verbal war, which doesn't seem to ever end, and this will only bring about more wars.
It was very educational to watch your videos, and I want to thank you for all the hard work you put into your channel. I wish all the best to Ukraine and Ukrainians, I have friends there, and of course I never wanted this war to start in the first place, but this just doesn't make sense for me anymore.
in the same time russians seriouly insist on calling belarus belorussia, or use moldavia instead of moldova, turkmenia instead of turkmenistan etc lol
and about badcomedian, he says that russian and ukrainian propagandas are the same and that's just a bunch of capitalists fighting this war, really? did ukraine fight any imperialistic war on russia as the latter did a lot? does ukraine destroy any russian city? using his logic, you can easily say "jewish and german propaganda was equally bad in reich! it was just oligarchs fighting for resourses! both parties are guilty!", pretty much a "soft" way to blame the victim
lololololololololololololol.
@@rayhimmel7167 I don't know who are those Russians who "insist", for most people it's only a matter of habit, how they are used to say. Not many people like changes. For myself I can say that I say Belarus, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc, and I barely hear "Turkmenia" btw. Moreover, the only variant of the words like Украина and украинский that I've ever heard in my life before this war is и-stressed, not a-stressed, and it was a surprise for me that so many people stress "a". And I come from a really small town, only 20k people (with only one small Z-banner in the place where one enters the town, just to stick to these stupid rules). So the tendencies you described are not that common, and people are different.
As to how you understood this video, this is clearly not what Zhenya intended to say. The main point is that this hatred was boiling on both sides for years and years, it started way before 2014, and it barely comes from the people themselves. I know how bad imperialism was to hundreds of nations on the territory of the former soviet republics, every intelligent person knows that (including Zhenya), my own family suffered enough. But spreading hatred won't make Russians (and people who think they are Russian) more peaceful and smart.
@@kantakouzini very smart of you.
@@vera8415 it's the smartest thing one can say to your most silly of comments on this video, 😜.
I didn't know Ukraine/ian good enough to know this. But actually, as much as I've considered myself ally of Ukrainians since 2013/4, and we have no upper and lower case letters in Cantonese, I've used an older name for russia 羅剎 very frequently in this context. Definitely, the warring state (russian fed) would not like this name if I were a foreign diplomat. I mean, I accept this theory as a matter of sentiments. It's pretty much just free speech, something that russian fed doesn't like and doesn't want everybody except themselves have.
Similar archaic country names existed for England 英吉利, Spain, and Portugal, and in fact Spain 西班牙 and Portugal 葡萄牙 are still in their original "names" that still contain a character "tooth". Even the Jews are still called 猶太人 (with an animal radical), but so far Spain, Portugal and Israel have not criticized our translations/have accepted them.
I also accept that interacting with different foreigners is almost like diplomacy, almost like "my" diplomacy or Ukraine's. Different people have sentiments and a lot of dislikes and likes. I have to be understanding.
congratulations to you my friend, you are an ally of ukraine since 2014, this means you are an ally of illegal government, n@zis and genocide against Donbas people.
Yet you use upper case in the description, in the sanctions section 🤔
Greetings to ukrainian инна сопрончук from MOSCOW, RUSSIA!!!
After second world war 2 Polish people, after not easy experience (and I put it mildly) with Germans changed the rule of writing: while all nationalities are written with the capital first latter, 'niemcy' is a perfectly fine writing for Germans in Polish.
But ad rem: changing rules like that, from the top to the bottom is something that I, as a amateur lingust, am strongly against. Dont get me wrong, I agree with the change but I believe that marking old spelling as 'wrong' or 'mistake' is incorrect.
Is it still common to write niemcy instead of Niemcy?
@@briannajeremy2311 TBH I don't know, I don't read that much Polish as I used to. But the small letter version was (and probably still is) at older generation. I was born circa 40 years after the war and from I remember it was always 50/50 of the contemporary texts writtten by people my age.
And BTW 'niemcy' etymology is tracked to 'mute' as they w'could bit be understood. It was historically applied to all Germanic people (there used to be somehow sizeable colonies of Dutch speakers, their language is an almost extinct Wilamowicean BTW) and French people were sometimes called 'paryscy niemcy' ('Germans from the Paris')
@@briannajeremy2311 no, I'm from Poland and absolutely not - it is now considered a grammar mistake.
Thank You!
Well I refer to ukraine as hohol land
Writing ''ruSSia'', ''ruSSian'', ''pootin'', ''pootler'' when using an English seems to fit perfectly.
or ruzzia/ruZZia ...
My favorite is poo-tin! If I knew how to put in the emoji I would!
Orc works.
@@irynawilson1002 💩🥫?
In the start of this war my heart was fully with you. For many years I used to be again Putin. But thank you for changing my mind. Thank you for calling all my entire nation "fascist". You all showed your real face. And helped to choose the right side for many simple Russians as me
Z
russian people allow this stain to exist. There's more of you, you can solve the problem but, you don't. Either you agree with him or too scared to do anything about it, your choice.
Полностью согласен, благодаря таким индивидам начинаешь понимать, что термин "денацификация" не лишён смысла
Согласен с тобой!
i used to be *against* Putin*
You can't write rules for other languages. And saying "these country and this people are fascist" is wrong too an it's fascist. This is too close to being xenophobic. Should we do the same with the US, the UK, Japan, China, France, Spain, etc...?
I don't agree with Bush, the Tory's, Franco, Hitler, Muzzolini, etc... I don't think they are all the same.
I understand the situation, but this is wrong.
It's the same with writing "god" instead of "God". I'm an atheist and I write God because it's a name, and you have to write it like that; you only write the gods because they are not names.
What am I reading here? Germans during Hitler were Nazis. Nothing to be ashamed of calling fascists fascists. It's not xenophobic but an objective view on the situation.
@@Bob-qu4wc all the Germans were Nazis? That's a new one
@@Bob-qu4wc Stepan Bandera.
Russia was. Russia will be
I wish I have gone to Ukraine, I didn't know what the country was until the war started.
We love you Ukraine!! 🇺🇦
Glory 🇺🇦
красотуля, а сделай будь ласка каст что такое АТО, кто и когда его объявил, и главное против КОГО оно было направлено, и куда ваши, как ты сказала, "ангелы" полетели на летаках да танках. Нехорошо же друзей в неведении держать.
Ja jako dobro razumijem kakva je razlika između rusije i Ukrajine. Mi u Hrvatskoj imamo slična iskustva. Slava Ukrajini. Heroem slava.
Анте Павелић и Степан Бандера, јесу то слична искуства дефинитивно. Етничко чишћење, логори (главни Јасеновац). Убиства, клања, одошко оштро оруђе са специфичним именом и наменом. Наравно не може се поредити, нацизам није био до те мере заступљен у Украјини, али зато у нацизам Хрватској пуном паром 100%. Подршка нацизму народа НДХ и дочек добродошлице војске немачке и нациста у Загребу са много цвећа. Али на вашу жалост сте поражени у оба светска рата то јест војна обрачуна. И Ваш Берлин је био сравњен са земљом.
За свој пораз у рату сте награђени аутономијом и ослобођењем од Аустро-Угарске коју вам је пружила Краљевина
I will be there someday and celebrate with you and will help somehow!
Thank you for your video Inna.
Post mongolian society with small letters sounds perfect - ruzzian.
Slava Ukraini 🌻🙏🏻🇺🇦
@Slavic Melodies sorry but Game is Over, thanks for playing.
@@puhistagram What’s wrong with being Mongolian? Europeans are so shitty to Asians sometimes.
I fully subscribe every single word of your video.
No one cares ☠️
Thank you.
in English? Ukraine can mandate anything within Ukraine, including changing language to fit current political agenda even when she should be rather fight actual war and it is far more similar to stuff from Soviet era when mandating usage of language and names were based more on will of party officials than actual facts on the ground, but its there decision but nothing Ukrainian state and language academy decrees has no influence on other languages rule and that includes English and written name of person or state and nation, even those you don't like, with lower case is a/ rude and b/ against both natural and official rules of almost every language. If Russia decreed Ukrainians don't deserve capital it would be rightly considered theatrics and ridiculous act of dictatorship and insult to all Ukrainians.
Dry your eyes - imagine complaining about it being 'rude' to not capitalise the name of a terrorist state which is invading and destroying many parts of Ukraine. Focus on what's important. Also, try using more punctuation like full stops if you're so worried about using languages correctly.
@@iontach9844 Back in 2008 when Georgia was attacked, analysts as well as some observant people were warning that Ukraine will be Kremlin's next target. Did Ukrainians begin to prepare for these events? No, they were bragging about how ancient and great they are as opposed to Eastern sub-nation. Had Israelis allowed themselves that attitude, they'd be thrown out to sea back in 1947 by the invading Arab armies. I mean "Focus on what's important". And finally, levity on Ukrainian side doesn't excuse the aggressor in any way.
@@dymytryruban4324 You can't compare the two situations since many of the Israelis are actually land grabbers from Europe who stole the property and land of indigenous Palestinians. Who is excusing the Russian aggressor? Certainly not me. I think you misunderstood my whole comment.
Perfect. Some words we just have to use, but we don't have to give them the respect of commanding a capital letter. Good work :-) Anyway, I find mordor and orcs are pretty good substitutes.
I expected that new rule is to write "ruZZia". oh well.
I have used all sorts of words since the beginning of this war. rasha, ruzzia, mordor, orcland. Orcs, zombies, ruskies. But when I'm talking about good Russians I use capital R. Yes, there are few of them.
@@pacifist9805 Yes, that makes sense - the opposition deserve the respect of a capital letter 🤍💙🤍
I know that behind all of your recent videos is a lot of hate for Russia and Russians, but politicizing language and grammar is far too much. When you look back at this time in the future, you will see how crazy this all looks. Language is not guilty for the work of bad politicians so stop it.
Maybe if your country was being invaded, you'd understand this small act of rebellion.
@@iontach9844 Oh stop it. They're already bombing each other on the battlefields. That's far enough anyway. Leave language alone.
I like this new standard. I'm usually very strict with correct casing, but I'll adopt this standard.
Wow! I’ve been doing that for a long time. I don’t feel right putting a capital letter on any of those words.
Also I say: “little man putin” and “the ruskins”
I Absolutely Love You Sweetheart! ✨♥️✨
Stay Safe! 🌹🌹🌹
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Thank you for your videos, and i agree with this rule 🇺🇦 🇬🇧
Do you know if there is a way to change the auto-capitalization rules on iPhone? These words always autocorrect to uppercase and I have to manually correct them every time.
I've preferred to completely ignore their made-up name of "russia" and just refer to it as "Muscovy". Though perhaps that one should also be lower case now?
moskali
Bandera 🇺🇦
eddy from belgium flanders - nice day
Well, Ruzzia (today) under Poopin is certainly different than Russia 30 years ago, when they weren't fascist, belligerent, etc, and they had peace with their neighbours.
I don't see anything wrong in using creative spelling in its proper context, but there are still valuable Russian contributions to literature, music, art, and all Russians are not evil people who support this war of aggression and the ruzzian war crimes.
russia was still causing terror decades ago. They oppressed millions and committed genocides.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 forces are still... or at least up until a few weeks ago bombing civilian residential buildings in RUSSIAN 🇷🇺 oriented cities. & this was happening for 8 years. Ever since the government was overthrown and a Western puppet state was established. The RUSSIA 🇷🇺 sympathizers from the Donbas region didn’t agree with this new regime and were more oriented towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺 ... hence they rebelled and refused to bow down to the new Kiev regime.
The War has been going on for 8 years but RUSSIA 🇷🇺 finally got openly involved in february... The War ESCALATED & was promoted from Ukranian civil war to what could be considered an ex Soviet civil war. But in reality a Nato vs Russia proxy war. While Nato isn’t openly intervening. But by sending troops to as if they’re Ukrainian units
This is RUSSIAS 🇷🇺,,Cuban missile crisis”... in the 60s the usa 🇺🇸 was ready to start WWIII over this potential threat from the Soviet Union establishing heavy arms ,,close” to its borders.. now the turntables.. except this is much closer and from more sides pointing towards RUSSIA 🇷🇺... the usa 🇺🇸 got its way with a mere threat of all out WAR or as some call it ,,diplomacy” & Soviets backed off & WWIII was postponed.
This time nato chose not to back off as the Soviets did last time, and the logical progression is WAR. The same way it would have been WAR had the Soviets decided to ignore usas 🇺🇸 safety concerns.
But nobody wants or likes to look at things from multiple angles. Everybody likes to put themselves as well as their own Countrymen, the likeminded & allies on the moral high-ground & demonize dehumanize
the opposite side. & This goes both ways
@@zx6r531 Yes, I agree with you. I'm thinking more about seeing both sides of ww2. Most ppl choose to only see one side. russia has murdered millions of ppl throughout history but never seems to pay for their crimes. At least ppl are seeing how horrible russia is. Long live Ukraine!
russia was still causing terror decades ago. They oppressed millions and committed genocides.
@@jakemakov1047 Yes, the Holodomor and deportations under Stalin will never be forgotten.
Russification of Ukraine really started under Tsar Peter and Catherine II. So, it has actually been going on for centuries.
It's making a fair point. Ukraine isn't telling the whole world what it must or must not do, it's kind of making its own statement about how Ukraine should not be expected to give any part of its own culture up, such as its own language, literature, and grammar. Or even worse, its own land and national identity!
Quite clever really!
Inna, your flowers there are wonderful and a lovely way to brighten your day! Mother Nature is such a clever woman, growing things of such beauty 😉
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Nazi propaganda
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🔵🔵🔵 free russian flag (lighter blue)
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Я знаю одну гарну жінку, яку таку хорошу людину звати Ірина. Їй сумно в Америці через війну. Я зроблю все, що зможу, для неї та її сина. Я молюся, щоб колись вона стала моєю дружиною.
Thank you for your hard work, wisdoms, and leadership. Слава Україні
My late Dido was born in Karpiliwka, UA in 1927 and my late Baba was born in Yelnya, RU in 1940. Keeping up on the news all throughout my childhood into adulthood and having a family friend and classmate that we would call on Sundays until we lost contact. It hurts so much to see what putler has been doing to so many innocent people over his reign as dictator. I pray for an end to this and for our true freedom to begin. Слава Україні! Героєм Слава! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
How do you say "russia" in Ukrainian language?
Росія
I think
*Russian
Thank you for the language update. I have written about 15 poems in support of Ukraine so far. I have changed the names to russia and putin in support of reduction of status. I also donate to Stand with Ukraine on a regular basis. Some of poems mention sergei lavrov and Patriach, kirill whose names I have also demoted to lower case.
I very much appreciate your language videos! I Do hope to visit Ukraine after your victory to meet my new friends, Anzhela Maslennikova and Viacheslav Stelmakh in person!!
We have the same problem with being Canadian - we are often called Americans when travelling so you will often see Canadian flags on our luggage and backpacks.
Thank you for the update on the written language.
Thank you for the official permission to use lower case and "putler".... I confess I have been referring to him as "pooty" since even before the war began. Slava Ukraini!
RUSSIA
I will definitely do this. Thank you for the information!
Darkness cannot defeat the light. Ukraine is a great light in this world. Ukrainian's are a great light. God bless and stay safe IHHA. ❤️
usa uk nato
Glad to see that it’s official now 👍
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I use katsap instead
The armed forces of Ukraine will liberate Kherson soon; I can't bear having russians occupy any areas, or having Ukrainians behind enemy lines. That is why support for armed forces is so important. Слава Україні!
hahaha, honestly where are you from to be this naive and believe such uranian propaganda that they are taking Kherson, they are not even close, hundreds of ukhanian soldiers are dying every day when they attempt any counter attack, the bitter truth for you is that salo uranila will never take Kherson, and dear Irochka will never go back to live there because she is an aggressive bandera supporter and a little n@zi, all her bs and ill minded Russophobia is on the internet and it is all downloaded and kept by people like me to make sure she can't change coats in the future and pretend like she is friendly to Russians when Russia finally liberates the last villages of Lvov Region up to the Polish border, and for you, Salo Ukhani