Re: OT: Renaming the continents

>* Which natives to take it from, of course, is a difficult problem in
itself. But first I want to find out if _any_ natives had an
applicable term, before I start deciding which to use, if any.


Hmmmm . . . my Politically Correct Dictionary always told me the correct term
for the continent of North America (instead of the one named for one of those
world-conquering, women-raping, village-despoiling, genocidal European
explorers) was "Turtle Island". Turtle Island, it said, was the name used by
Native Americans and therefore was the correct name.

The only problem was that to be politically correct you have to call animals
Feline-Americans instead of cats, or Canine-Americans instead of dogs, etc.
(I do know one person on another forum who refers to cows as
Bovine-Americans, so this is actually in use, even though it probably started
out as a joke.) The dictionary even suggested "ichthyo-American" for fish
living in the inland waters of, and nearby oceans to, the United States. So
having "turtle" in the name wouldn't be politically correct enough. They'd
have to call it "Chelonian-American Island". But wait! "Chelonian-American"
has the word "American" in it, which is what we were trying to get rid of.
Better make that "Chelonian-TurtleIslander Island". There's that pesky
"turtle" again. "Chelonian-Chelonian-American-Islander Island." Wait, now we
have to get rid of American again.
"Chelonian-Chelonian-Turtle-Islander-Islander Island" . . .