m on May 8th, 2008

Vincas sent me a photo he took of a sign in Užupis naming the republic in all five historical languages of the city:

UŽUPIO RESPUBLIKA (Lithuanian)
ЗАРАЧАНСКАЯ РЭСПУБЛІКА (Belarusian)
רעפּובליק פון זאַרעטשע (Yiddish)
РЕСПУБЛИКА ЗАРЕЧЬЕ (Russian)
REPUBLIKA ZARZECZA (Polish)

Here we have four different grammatical ways of expressing “Republic of Užupis.” The Lithuanian and Polish take two nouns and create a [...]

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