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Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 20:29
> 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?
This little thing annoys me too, namely, that "Yugoslav" today is assumed to mean "Serb", though besides Serbs there are there a large number of Hungarians (some 4% of the population) and also Romanians, Bulgarians, Croats, Sanjak Muslims, Goranci, Macedonians, Slovaks, Turks, Egyptians and others, making the Serb population of Yugoslavia only about 80%. Also the term "Kosovar" meaning only "Albanian from Kosovo", thus excluding all others who live(d) there, like Serbs, Croats, Turks, Hungarians, Macedonians and others; though it seems recently this problem is being solved by the Albanians there =/ -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz