Re: Russkii vs Rossiiskii

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> I'd be tempted to suggest _rusky_ for _russkij_. However, in at least one
> book I recently read, _russkies_ was used as a pejorative term for Russians
> - if this usage exists also extrafictionally, my idea is obviously pretty
> bad.
Indeed it does exist extrafictionally.  Many of the insult-terms for
non-Anglos in English are simply the native terms, mangled or even (in the
case of "Chinaman") literally translated.  "Bohunk" is one of my favorites
(linguistically speaking) because it is a blanket term for Czechs and/or
Hungarians.  Similarly, "squarehead" refers to the speakers of any other
Germanic language (but not Scots).

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