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Why Russians use adjective when speaking about their nation and nouns for the rest of the world?
Just wanted to add my two cents on this. Even though nominalization of adjectives is something that not that exotic to Russian - a lot of quite used words evolved that way - speaking of ethnonym it's ...
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