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> reduce ambiguity between the U.S.A and Latin/North/Central/South America, And the continent 'America'. Just for comparison: what do you think 'South Africa'
by ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
> reduce ambiguity between the U.S.A and Latin/North/Central/South America,
And the continent 'America'.
Just for comparison: what do you think 'South Africa' (the country, not the region ;) should be called?
- harpersealtako 5y agoSouth Africa? I would call it South Africa if that's what they want to be called. I definitely wouldn't call citizens of South Africa "RS Africans" or something unless they preferred that for some reason.
- kompatible 5y agoIn Romance languages, the continent is known as the supercontinent "America", but in Germanic languages (like English) and other languages that borrow from it call them the "Americas" as two continents "North" and "South" America. So, for people to bring it over as 'America' can sometimes be seen as pedantry instead of insightfulness.
- ReleaseCandidat 5y ago> but in Germanic languages (like English) Well, yes, in theory you could use 'Amerikas' in German, but nowadays that's mostly because of a bad translation. It actually is correct German to speak of 'both America' - 'beide Amerika' (in singular). https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Amerika https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Amerika > So, for people to bring it over as 'America' can sometimes be seen as pedantry instead of insightfulness. Of course it is pedantry.
- ajmurmann 5y agoHah, when I hear "beide Amerikas" I think of political divide within the US.