(sorry if this doesn’t fit) i don’t speak russian, so today i learned “lunch” and “dinner” apparently use the same word (although dinner also has ужин) : todayilearned

[+] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah the definitions for lunch, supper, dinner, and tea have been rather unstable in contemporary English; a real dog’s breakfast.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago

The main meal being the evening meal is largely an artefact of the Industrial Revolution, when large parts of the population spent most of the day at a workplace away from home. In agrarian societies, the main meal, i.e. dinner, being in the middle of the day was more common, and the smaller evening meal was referred to as supper.

[–] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has a lot to do with how English is taught in Russia. When I was a school kid (long time ago) we learned that there's breakfast, dinner and supper, dinner being the midday meal. It was not until much later that I also learned words like lunch, brunch etc.

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because lunch simply doesn't exist in some languages, here in Poland we have breakfast, dinner and supper, lunch came as an western import after communism fell, anyway why name your meals?

[–] drbollocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. (learning Polish), for some reason i thought obiad was just lunch and kolacja was dinner but this makes more sense

Today I learned