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ковер плесень means "carpet mold"
Weird name for a space movie.
Well rug... Not carpet. And it's literally saying the carpet is the mold. So it would better translate to rug-mold.
"Ковёр" is closer to "carpet" I'd argue. I'd translate "rug" as "коврик"
I would agree with you. There's a regional difference I was born in Lvov Ukraine so I speak a more Ukrainian Russian. But I would venture to say that палас would be a more accurate word over all.
The carpet is the mold, what a brilliant idea!
It's probably google translated to Russian, since it's just two nouns slapped together.
Yeah, Google Translate also translates carpet as "ковер" instead of the proper spelling (ковёр), and it actually does translate "carpet mold" as "ковер плесень" (instead of a more proper translation like "ковровая плесень" or "плесень в ковре").
I'd say it's 99% google translate
Eh, both are proper spelling, I don't think any Russian manual said it's mandatory. The ë is used mainly in dictionaries, Russian schoolbooks, etc. where ambiguity should be minimal.
It's also used by people who respect the language and don't want to see it gradually turn into a shitshow like English where it's spelled ‘Manchester’, pronounced ‘Liverpool’.
When was the last time you read a book which used ë regularly (as in, not just in cases as distinguishing все-всё)?
For better or worse, I've been reading almost exclusively in English for years, but also listening to English audiobooks wherein I learned a lot of new things about words that I've seen before. That's precisely why I've become more entrenched in my belief that ‘ё’ shouldn't be optional. And use it myself always.
Fair enough. I tend to use it because it just reduces scanning ambiguity when reading text quickly.
Ah just like me babushka used to make
Lmaoooo
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