>Microsoft is not known for innovation
Can't really agree on this point. Microsoft has historically done a lot of research and innovation, what they weren't really good is making a product out of that and bringing it to market.
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Can't really agree on this point. Microsoft has historically done a lot of research and innovation, what they weren't really good is making a product out of that and bringing it to market.
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Gyvas ( Gee-vas ) is the same cognate in Lithuanian. And same as in Russian, Gyva is the feminine gender of the same word.
The root of the word comes down to us all the way from PIE
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
Lithuania - corruption index 32/168 [1] Russia - corruption index 119/168 [2]
Regarding bureaucracy:
You do know that almost everything in Lithuania is done electronically? I can open a company in a couple of days without leaving my house. Same with my taxes.
And if I do need to sign something, I usually sign it with my e-signature and just send over the signed PDF.
I haven't seen much bureaucracy here in years.
Now try that in Russia.
Language-wise (another parent, but I'm too lazy to make a 2nd comment):
I speak both - Russian and Lithuanian... and while there are similarities, like next to no word order, structure, punctuation etc. There are more differences than similarities.
Roots of most words are different. There are more verb forms in Lithuanian [3] which slavic languages lack. Lithuanian still preserves a fully functional future tense, unlike say slavic languages that lost the future tense (like english) and have to use a compound future tense.
Lithuanian itself feels much more archaic.
Linguistically the baltic languages are as close to slavic languages as they are close to german languages[4]
[1]http://www.transparency.org/country#LTU [2]http://www.transparency.org/country#RUS [3]http://www.lituanus.org/1987/87_1_04.htm [4]https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among...
The pirukas part might come from baltic - pyragas and/or slavic - pirog.