Re: Afrasian?

 --- Andreas wrote:

> If _Eurasica_ is eurocentric, is _Eurasia_ then asiatocentric?
No. In "Eurasia" the two components are more or less equally represented. But
in "Eurasica" Europe can be identified immediately by the first three letters
of the word, while Asia must do with only two unique letters somewhere in the
middle. Furthermore, Africa has to be content with only one letter that nobody
would immediately connect to the word "Africa" anyway.
That's why I think the name of this super-continent should not be based upon
just a few letters of each, but on their identifiers: "Eur", "Afr", "As".
A bit like in "Benelux".

> And what is _Jurassica_?
Perhaps a contamination of "Jurassic Park" and "Metallica"? Dunno, it just came
to my mind.

> That said, _Eurafrasia_ is pretty good.
Thanks. I think it sounds better and more fluently than "Afreurasia" (it's
probably the -reur- part of the latter which makes it sounds rather clumsy).

Jan

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