Re: Hi from Ukraine

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> BTW, in Swedish literature the Polono-Lithuanian union is often refered to
> as simply "Rzeczpospolita". Is this in use in English too?
Are you kidding?  Insert a monstrosity like that into the flow of limpid English
prose?  I think NOT!  :-)

Most English-speakers probably aren't aware that the Republic of the Two Crowns
(which is what it's called in Ill Bethisad) ever existed.  If they are, they
probably think of it as "Poland".

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