Re: Country names still needed

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Quoting Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:
>
> > Can I venture a suggestion?  List Soviet republics by themselves.
> > Though
> > for the life of me I can't imagine what you'd use for, say, the Baltics
> > (as
> > long as you stick to animals).  There's a subculture in Lithuania
> > whose
> > symbol is, I think, some kind of black bear, but that's not really
> > distinctive.  If I were choosing a new name for Lithuania, I imagine
> > I'd
> > link it to the word for amber.
>
> Question: Is this supposed to be a list of present-day countries? If so,
> there's no need to list any Soviet Republics at all, since, Aleksandr
> Lukashenka notwithstanding, there aren't any.
>
> Of course, the various independent countries that used to be SSRs deserve
> being included just as much as any other country.
>
>                                                                  Andreas
How about the various non independent republics of the Russian Federation?

David Barrow

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