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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    14 hours ago

    When I was a school kid (long time ago) we learned that there’s breakfast, dinner and supper, dinner being the midday meal.

    … which isn’t wrong, just incomplete.