• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    8 days ago

    There are not doctors in Germany either. Not were there any academics in the whole of Russia.

    They’re called arzt. or Doktor. That’s not helpful, though.

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      8 days ago

      That’s not a good analogy though. Cosmonaut isn’t just a translated term of astronaut. It’s different on purpose.

      Just a PhD is specifically different from MD, even though both are doctors.

      No their jobs aren’t as different, but it’s very much a definite prescriptive difference, one are people who went to space from the USSR/Russia, astronauts are American/European and Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.