GENIUS—movie posters from Ukraine

mr X said:🙄
I’m on the same page.

But one thing caught my eye: three of the posters say "May"
while the Bad Boys one says "October"... so how does that work with the months in Ukraine?

People in Ukraine speak both Ukrainian and Russian; I assume pretty much everyone is bilingual.

The month names in Ukrainian are probably similar to what we use here. Actually, looking closely, that first poster is definitely in Ukrainian because of that specific letter ї (an 'i' with two dots), whereas anyone using the й character is writing in Russian (both letters make a 'y' sound).

Um... what I meant was, Ukrainian uses both the Latin-looking і and the й letter.🙂

Ukrainians use Slavic names that feel pretty familiar to Americans—they mostly describe nature and farming cycles. Since their weather patterns hit a bit later than ours, the names are shifted a bit: May is "травень [travenj]", July is "липень [lipenj]", August is "серпень [serpenj]", and November is "листопад[listopad]".

January: січень [sičenj]
February: лютий [ljutij]
March: березень [berezenj] — from "birch"
April: квітень [kvitenj]
May: травень [travenj]
June: червень [červenj]
July: липень [lipenj]
August: серпень [serpenj]
September: вересень [veresenj]
October: жовтень [žovtenj]
November: листопад[listopad]
December: грудень [grudenj]

In Russian, they just use the international (Latin-based) versions:

январь [janvar']
февраль [febral']
март [mart]
апрель [aprel']
май [maj]
июнь [ijunj]
июль [ijulj]
август [avgust]
сентябрь [sentjabr']
октябрь [oktjabr']
ноябрь [nojabr']
декабрь [dekabr']

And yeah, Carol Long95 makes a good point—aside from "the hooligans," everyone else sounds Russian.

It’s happening in Poland too... probably the same type of guy, some kind of polyglot...😁