Some maintain that “or” is ambiguous in English, with an inclusive and an exclusive sense. But another possibility is that the exclusive interpretation is a generalized conversational implicature. One piece of evidence supporting the implicature hypothesis is that the exclusive interpretation seems cancelable. Thus “Jane will visit France or Germany this summer; indeed, she will drive through both on her way to Poland” has no contradictory interpretation.

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In reply to @nalix:matrix.org

Since 1990s, a citizen of Russian Federation is usually called россиянин (ros-see-yuh-nin) in Russian, while the term русский (roos-skeey) usually has ethnic connotations, though the difference is not clear cut. For instance, nationalists prefer the term русский regardless of their degree of civicness. But if you want to make a distinction, that’s the way.

Historically, a similar confusion existed in Russian Empire. Unlike, say, in British Empire, there weren’t separate terms for imperial (a Brit) and ethnic (an Englishman) identity, and an ethnic Georgian could without a second thought be called русский (= a subject of Russian crown). Thus, notably, when Lenin decried greatrussian chauvinism he used the term великороссы, not русские. I do not know if in his time it would make an outright mistake of reference, but at the very least, presumably, it was considered a more precise term. Though, nowadays, I think, most agree that русский refers to “ethnicity,” sorts of (trying to make an ethnic identity a civic/imperial one usually dries the term out; a lazy conception of what made a Russian in late imperial times was “Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland”). In this sense русский refers rather to nationality than ethnicity. Naturally, nationalists of various sorts would disagree.

So TL;RD, there’s a recent term россиянин, which, when used, always refers to citizenship, and there’s a contentious русский, which is connoted with ethnicity, but whose reference will depend on the speaker.

In reply to @nalix:matrix.org
Well, in English there’s only Russian, which, afaik, makes many people pause before answering, “Are you Russian?” including myself.

In reply to @salusbury:midov.pl
Ah so there isn't anything that precise for ethnicity anymore. Thanks for enlightening me.

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Wait why would you pause?