Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Frank George Valoczy wrote:

>> PS If you think I've got some special bias against the term "American" and
>> the use of "America" for the USA, tere's a few other names and terms I also
>> dislike. I've already mentioned that I dislike seeing "Europe" used for the
>> EU. The distinction between "South Africa" and "southern Africa" sometimes
>> causes trouble. The Central African Republic has a somewhat inconvenient
>> names as there's quite a lot of republics in Central Africa. Do "Timorese"
>> refer to anyone/-thing from Timor or just form East Timor?
>
After the hole East Timor debacle, I can say for certain that Timorese
means anyone/-thing from Timor, and East Timorese means anyone/-thing
from East Timor. At least thats what the media and people of Oz were saying

Tristan

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