The Russian word for passport is just passport? Huh.
Same way that Телофон is Telephone, most new-ish words are cognates of the one that made the word. That being said I’m pretty sure England wasn’t the first one to ever do passports, I never thought about it tho.
From French, passeport.
It's things like this that make learning foreign languages in the twenty-first century a lot more straightforward than it used to be. If you read 'formal', 'popular', 'non'-fiction like international news in newspapers, it's basically all the same with a different accent and some different sentence structures. It can be recognisable aurally, too, if the other person speaks slowly.
Seen this meme on
recently. Some git was coping in the comments, saying "at least oil has worth". YeahI love how the net effect of their brilliant sanctions strategy is that EU is still buying a ton of energy from Russia, but now it's going through third parties that take their own cut that EU now pays. All so that the clowns in charge can tell their citizens they're now independent of Russia.
What is the black thing that the Russian Federation flag is on top of being depicted as "okay"?
A barrel of oil.
Thanks lol
