Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

> 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

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