Re: Afrasian?

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.