Talk:Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible/Rap Meanings/@comment-28970920-20160713200421

A minor detail, if I may, for the mesmerizing beauty of Absolution...

Ivan offers the drink Alexander demanded earlier with a cheer of "на здоровье" (phonetically "zdorov'ye"), a Russian greeting of "to good health" or "bless you".

The "na" could be added to the phonetical representation of "на здоровье". The saying also always means "to/for good health", as it is used in some form in almost every slavic country, regardless of its usage as a toasting cheer or wishing the sneezing didn't come with an apocalypse attached, where the well-versed english-speakers would use "bless you".

And I'm quite certain not a single soul ever managed to use this cheer as a greeting, although many a meaning of even the most common of english words still eludes me, thus a "greeting" may very well be a "wish".