Помогите, империя зла заставляет меня говорить на искуственном языке!
P.S. Using the word “horde” in this context isn’t racist since this word comes to English from the word Turkic tribes used to describe several concepts related to their statehood, i.e., the horde is just what they called themselves. In fact, the word is still actively used by the descendant Turkic states, e.g., the residence of the president of Kazakhstan is referred to as Ak Orda – white horde. What is racist is all the negative connotations and associations this word acquired once adopted to English.
That is very interesting, thank you for the explanation!
I think I am a bit more sensitive since I see it used when referring to “hordes of Russian orcs” which feels racist. In this specific post it seems like the poster is trying to make a distinction between the civilized Slavic Ukrainians and the Mongol Russians.
That is understandable and I agree that Nazis (both Ukrainian and Russian in my experience as a Russian speaker btw) love to make that distinction between a pure Slav/Rusich and impure Mongols.
Помогите, империя зла заставляет меня говорить на искуственном языке!
P.S. Using the word “horde” in this context isn’t racist since this word comes to English from the word Turkic tribes used to describe several concepts related to their statehood, i.e., the horde is just what they called themselves. In fact, the word is still actively used by the descendant Turkic states, e.g., the residence of the president of Kazakhstan is referred to as Ak Orda – white horde. What is racist is all the negative connotations and associations this word acquired once adopted to English.
That is very interesting, thank you for the explanation!
I think I am a bit more sensitive since I see it used when referring to “hordes of Russian orcs” which feels racist. In this specific post it seems like the poster is trying to make a distinction between the civilized Slavic Ukrainians and the Mongol Russians.
That is understandable and I agree that Nazis (both Ukrainian and Russian in my experience as a Russian speaker btw) love to make that distinction between a pure Slav/Rusich and impure Mongols.