i know someone who is a native russian speaker and said they were “eating lunch” at 5pm despite already having eaten lunch. i was confused, and either figured they were having a second or late lunch, when i found this:

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    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?

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      8 hours 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