Re: Afrasian?
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 11, 2002, 11:17 |
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On Friday 11 October 2002 08:58 pm, you wrote:
> Tim May wrote:
> >Andreas Johansson writes:
> > > 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.)
> >
> >Eurasia's one of the three superstates in 1984 by George Orwell. Does
> >anyone know if this is the origin of the term?
> >
> >I certainly think it would be useful to have a term for the landmass
> >as a whole, but I'm not entirely satisfied with Eurasica. For one
> >thing, Europe gets three unique letters*, and Africa only one.
> >
> >I wonder... is it possible to run the lojban gismu generation
> >algorithm on the three words as if they were terms for the same thing
> >in different languages? Of course, that would give us a 5 letter term
> >conforming to lojban morphology, which wouldn't be recognizable, but
> >it might be interesting.
> >
> >* Or 2, depending on how you look at it, but there's definitely a
> > stronger suggestion of Europe than Africa.
>
> I think of it as _Eur-as-ica_, with three letters from Africa.
>
> Leaving Asia, which of course makes up most of the Old World, with the
> least number of letters is hardly "fair", but I more tried to create
> something sounding reasonably than something entirely "fair" or "rational".
>
> Couple other possible combinations; _Afreurasia_, _Eurafrasia_.
Asiafreur? Asieurafr? Afrasiaeur?
Wesley Parish
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