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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse

there's this indian guy in the office who is having his corpo-paid czech lesson on a teams call and spends an hour repeating basic czech phrases and words with a very strong indian accent and it's like so funny
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@pony Oh c'mon, given no experience with Slavic languages whatsoever he deserves a fair share of respect for even trying. Much better than another Muscovian who at the B1 level still reads „ale“ as „álě“.

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@oleksandr he's also laughing so much while doing it, so i don't think it's like a terrible experience for him
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@pony @oleksandr when I try to speak Russian (sorry Oleksandr) my wife laughs at me.

Slavic languages are hard for Brits too
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@ljs @pony Slavic languages are hard for Brits not because Slavic languages are hard but because Brits are arrogant.

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@ljs @oleksandr i have actually adopted several mispronounced words my scottish ex-colleague (who also did some czech lessons for a bit) used, like "kotačka" because he could not remember kočka
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@oleksandr @pony LOLLLLLL are we now Oleksandr???

I seem to recall you claiming every food stuff I ever heard of is Ukrainian which you know doesn't sound humble...

And if we're arrogant, what about the French??
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@pony @oleksandr tbh bro all I know is kunda (cc: @vbabka )
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@ljs @oleksandr @vbabka that's the small estonian town where they are planning to build the kunda nuclear power plant
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@pony @oleksandr @vbabka I hear Ukrainians have a lot of good experience managing nuclear power plants, maybe Oleksandr could take a look?

100% safety record. OK well apart from that one time but you know...

Sorry sorry I'm an arrogant Brit ;)
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@ljs @oleksandr @vbabka are you now sending oleksandr to kunda
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@pony @oleksandr @vbabka sending a kunda to kunda yes

See how my national pride is hurt, the lions are crying
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@ljs @pony What would sound humble? Ceding territories?

Also, how good you are at French English?

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@oleksandr @pony we ceded an entire empire bro LOL. And we gave the yanks back their country because we didn't want it.

Don't talk to me about 1066 bro them Normans...
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@ljs @pony @vbabka Except those shitty RBMKs were developed by a Muscovian.

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@oleksandr @pony @vbabka yeah tbf you aren't wrong about that bit.

And it was shit soviet mentality that fucked that on top of the shit design and the fucking truly mental 'experiment' done there
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@ljs @pony @vbabka Lions? I saw only a lazy kitty in that photo.

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@ljs @oleksandr lorenzo's interview with tucker carlson moment
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@oleksandr @pony @vbabka no they are alert and ready to fight!
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@pony @oleksandr NO TUCKER LEAVE IT ALONE.

*rips off top in hulk hogan moment*

*screeches and brachiates*

cc: @lkundrak
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