Re: Afrasian?

>Well, it's my impression that the names of the three continents are
>especially
>recognizable from their first two or three letters.
>Therefore, I propose "Eurafrasia".
>
>(Okay, it sounds a bit like a medicine, or perhaps rather like the
>phenomenon
>that somebody is unable to pronounce the word "Europe", but it's definitely
>better than "Eurasica", which is both Eurocentric and sounds like a mixture
>between "Eurasia" and "Jurassica").
>
If _Eurasica_ is eurocentric, is _Eurasia_ then asiatocentric? And what is
_Jurassica_?

That said, _Eurafrasia_ is pretty good.

                                                Andreas

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