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Войско definitely exists in the language but you won't call the modern army that.

Russian works exactly the same as you described regarding to computer jargon. компьютер, клавиатура, мышка, мейл/почта, загрузить-скачать. Сеть.



My family jokingly uses дупло to refer to email; it's a joke about leaving a letter in a hollow tree for another person to come and look for. I wonder how many other people use what's basically a private dialect to refer to new technology and borrow-words.




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