zenosanalytic reblogged
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So in russian, nouns are either animate or inanimate gramatically, depending on whether they move.
Well, the russian word for corpse, мертвец, is animate, which raises quite a few terrifying questions about russia’s past
Rasputin’s influence was extensive.
Rasputin? Koschei didn’t hide his heart in a needle in an egg in a duck on a island in a lake in a forest to get ignored like this.