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The population of those countries is probably differently off than they are in reality, but not necessarily better or worse. The Afghani probably wouldn't be a
by gngeal 13y ago
The population of those countries is probably differently off than they are in reality, but not necessarily better or worse.
The Afghani probably wouldn't be as high on heroin as they are now.
- jnbiche 13y agoIt took me a while to parse your sentence, and to figure out who the "they" was referring to. In turns out that in English and in many Middle Eastern languages, "Afghani" is the singular form of the demonym of Afghanistan. This mirrors the singular demonym of many other Middle Eastern countries (e.g., "an Israeli, "Yemeni", "Iraqi"). So "the Afghani" refers to a single person from Afghanistan. It took me a second reading to figure out that you meant the people of Afghanistan, in plural. The commonly accepted plural form in English is "Afghans" [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonymic_forms_for_countries_and_nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonym...
- gngeal 13y agoOops, you're right - I guess I fell too much in love with -i as a plural suffix. I don't know where that came from.