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(sorry if this doesn’t fit) i don’t speak russian, so today i learned “lunch” and “dinner” apparently use the same word (although dinner also has ужин)
(self.todayilearned)
i know someone who is a native russian speaker and said they were “eating lunch” at 5pm despite already having eaten lunch. i was confused, and either figured they were having a second or late lunch, when i found this:
Because lunch simply doesn't exist in some languages, here in Poland we have breakfast, dinner and supper, lunch came as an western import after communism fell, anyway why name your meals?
ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. (learning Polish), for some reason i thought obiad was just lunch and kolacja was dinner but this makes more sense