Re: OT: [Let_It_Be_Forever_Islam] THE WORLD OF THE JINN

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:05:18PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > "Asian" isn't really relevant here - the adjectives (and therefrom derived
> > nouns) refering to the continents are always capitalized.
>
> Other way around, I think: the adjective "Asian" is derived from the
> noun "Asia".  Unless "Asia" was originally a back-formation?
The adj "Asian" is from "Asia", yes. But what I was refering to was the
noun "Asian", which is derived from the adjective.

                                                           Andreas