Dzień dobry, Lukasze!
> on Friday, November 30, 2001 1:22 AM you wrote:
> Well, Ukraine as an independent state has much shorter history than
Denmark
> and the name 'the (far, wild) land at the edge' suggests that it was
coined
> by the residents of 'the Republic of Both Nations' (that's my literal
> translation) which is continued now as Poland (I wouldn't expect
> Belarussians and Lithuanians to feel being heirs of 'the Republic'). And I
> wouldn't expect Ukrainian archinationalists to like Poland and to like
> calling their young state in the way that sounds almost like 'outskirts of
> Poland'.
Agree. Now they think that the word "Ukraina" is a Russian (Moscovite)
invention to offend :-)))