WHY RUSSIA IS NOT 'SAFE'
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2021
- Is it safe in Russia? Is Russia safe to travel? Unfortunately, Russia is not "safe". And in this video I'm telling you why it's not 'safe' and why it can't be 'safe'.
Btw, my name is Sergey and I'm from Russia, I make videos on languages and Russia (because I love languages and live in Russia). If you want to watch more about life in Russia, please check out this video: • Life in a Russian Town... (town tour)
If you'd like to watch more about the Russian language (some fun facts), please watch this video: • Why SHADOW AND BONE is... (Russian words in a fictional fantasy universe)
And here is a nice clip about Russian movies! • Soviet Lord of the Rin... - Komedie
That's pretty interesting! I've never really given this much thought, but don't most languages do this in some way? Forming an adjective by negating the opposite, instead of having a dedicated word for it.
For example, the English "uncomfortable", we take "comfortable" and negate it with a prefix. In German, we have the same situation with "ungemütlich" ("un-" prefix is the same as in English, and "gemütlich" means comfortable). We can also do the equivalent of Russian, "ungefährlich", which means "not dangerous", i.e. safe, but we also do have an equivalent for "safe", "sicher", though it's not used in exactly the same way.
In Japanese, it's somewhat similar with 無事 (無 is the negating prefix), though it's more along the lines of "without incident", as in, "coming home safely", and not "a safe country to visit".
In Chinese, the closest I can think of is 無害, though it's also not quite the same as 'not dangerous', it's more "not harmful", i.e. "harmless" (The "-less" suffix also works similar in English to "un-", doesn't it?).
I'd be curious if there is any language that doesn't do this.
Edit: A great Chinese example comparable to безопасный is 不同, meaning "different", which literally is "not same". At least in the sense of "dissimilar" (like "different taste"), there is no other word in Chinese to say "different".
There is a funny thing with 'flammable' and 'inflammable' in English. You might think they mean the opposite things because of 'in-' but they mean the same things, 'in-' is not a prefix, it's a part of 'inflame' :) I don't think there's anything like that in Russian.
p.s.: your knowlenge of different languages is impressive! :)
@@sergeysvids2756 That's pretty funny, I don't think that's something we have in German either, at least I can't think of any examples. The prefix appearing in the German version of "inflammable", "entflammbar", is "ent-", different from the "in-" prefix that also appears in a lot of negated adjectives, like "inkompetent" (meaning "incompetent", who would have guessed ^^). "ent-" seems to come from Germanic, while "in-" seems to come from Latin. In English they ended up sounding the same, despite their different meaning and origin.
And thank you ^^ I love learning languages in my free time (especially ones with interesting writing systems, hence Japanese and Chinese). I'll definitely learn Russian as well in the future, it's high on my list to get started with next, once I'm comfortable with Chinese.
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Hi! :)
People outside of Russia forget how big Russia is 😉 and funny how there is no word for safe!
You missed the joke.
Usually, people say that Russia is an Eastern European country. Well, I live in Russia but definitely not in Eastern Europe😄
@@badquestion4785 don't worry I got it :)
@@sergeysvids2756 especially from Europe, people see Moscow and not beyond