Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoCyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian localisation takes the piss out of Russia's warwww.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareCommiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year agoThat’ll get em! Next time I want to hurt someone I’ll say a few mean things about them in a language they don’t speak in a game they can’t buy.
minus-squareGucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoAren’t Russian and Ukrainian so similar that they’re mutually intelligible except for a few things here and there?
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoIt’s a 60% lexical similarity rate (including writing scripts) . That’s like equivalent to the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese…
minus-squareGucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoOh darn I thought it was higher, but I guess a lot of Ukrainians are bilingual too
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYeah, I suppose that, especially in the Donbass, Luhansk, et Crimea regions…
That’ll get em! Next time I want to hurt someone I’ll say a few mean things about them in a language they don’t speak in a game they can’t buy.
Aren’t Russian and Ukrainian so similar that they’re mutually intelligible except for a few things here and there?
It’s a 60% lexical similarity rate (including writing scripts) . That’s like equivalent to the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese…
Oh darn I thought it was higher, but I guess a lot of Ukrainians are bilingual too
Yeah, I suppose that, especially in the Donbass, Luhansk, et Crimea regions…