Re: Afrasian?

Tristan wrote:
>
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>>Random thought re contrations of continent names; what d'ya people
>>think of
>>"Eurasica" for the landmass consisting of Eurasia and Africa? Sounds alot
>>better than "the Old World", doesn't it?
>
>'The Old World' has the benefit of being understood by everyone.
In your neck of the woods, possibly. Here, most people'd identify "the New
World" as the Americas, and know that Europe is included in "the Old World",
but not what else. Some claim that "the Old World" is only Europe.

>'Eurasica' looks more like a typo for 'Eurasia' than a word it its own
>right.
Certainly doesn't _sound_ as one!

But I'm not having any megalomanic dreams of changing geographic
terminology. The question was rather intended to probe whether you thought
it could be a good name in a more perfect world. Thou evidently dost not.
(That said, someone must've coined Eurasia, and it probably sounded weird at
first, too.)

                                                       Andreas

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