So… “world peace” is just…? Google returns a phrase that it translates back into “peace in everything,” but the word does repeat in that phrase. I’m sure it’s a contextual thing and I know some things just don’t carry over between languages, but now I’m interested in how Russian works.
I think it would be one of those small things that constantly amuses me to the bewilderment of natives. One single letter stops this from being misread as “in everything, peace,” no? If even that?
Not really, that extra letter is a noun case, it serves grammar only. I guess the word all (всем) is what helps distinguish between the meanings here. It belongs to the semantic field of mir as in the world, while Russians don’t use it together with mir as in peace.
Much like Eskimo have 27 words for snow because they have so much exposure and have to denote subtle variations, Russians lumped a bunch of unused words together. World peace? Not in Russian!
That a misnomer, eskimos technically have lots of words for snow, but that’s because they combine the adjective and the noun, so snowy snow would become something like snowysnow.
If you count that, then every language has lots of words for snow
IIRC it also means “world”.
So… “world peace” is just…? Google returns a phrase that it translates back into “peace in everything,” but the word does repeat in that phrase. I’m sure it’s a contextual thing and I know some things just don’t carry over between languages, but now I’m interested in how Russian works.
That would be мир во всем мире, literally peace in all the world
I’ve also heard миру мир: “peace to the world”.
I see it more often
I think it would be one of those small things that constantly amuses me to the bewilderment of natives. One single letter stops this from being misread as “in everything, peace,” no? If even that?
Not really, that extra letter is a noun case, it serves grammar only. I guess the word all (всем) is what helps distinguish between the meanings here. It belongs to the semantic field of mir as in the world, while Russians don’t use it together with mir as in peace.
Much like Eskimo have 27 words for snow because they have so much exposure and have to denote subtle variations, Russians lumped a bunch of unused words together. World peace? Not in Russian!
It’s literally “Miru - mir”, “Vsemirnyi mir”, or “Mir vo vsyom mirje”.
That a misnomer, eskimos technically have lots of words for snow, but that’s because they combine the adjective and the noun, so snowy snow would become something like snowysnow. If you count that, then every language has lots of words for snow
No one have 27 words for snow, that’s a myth
You are correct.