Re: Afrasian?

 --- Tim May wrote:

> Tony Hogard writes:
>  > Tim May:
>  >
>  > > 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.
>  >
>  > Afrasiope?
>
> I think I'd prefer Afrasiopa, as all the other continents end in -a.
> (How did Europe come to be named after Europa, anyway?)  Sounds a
> little odd, but okay.
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").

Jan

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