i know someone who is a native russian speaker and said they were “eating lunch” at 5pm despite already having eaten lunch. i was confused, and either figured they were having a second or late lunch, when i found this:

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    8 hours ago

    ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. (learning Polish), for some reason i thought obiad was just lunch and kolacja was dinner but this makes more sense