Re: conlangs' worlds (was: Back!)

A Rosta wrote:

> Piat belongs with the alternative histories,
> but with the details left ruritanianly vague.
Ruritanian perhaps, but not vague.  Piat was a part of the
Triune Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania, which came to
an end (like its much larger neighbor Austria-Hungary) at the
end of the WW II.  Piatland was one of the smallest of the
successor states.

N.B. I did not invent the Triune Monarchy:
Avram Davidson did in his alternate-history work _The Enquiries
of Doctor Eszterhazy_, which contains a most realistic-looking map
of the T.M.  If I have not settled just where Piatland is on this
map, it is out of sheer laziness, not an attempt to be vague on
purpose.

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        John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
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Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
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