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In Romance languages, the continent is known as the supercontinent "America", but in Germanic languages (like English) and other languages that borrow from it c
by kompatible 5y ago
In 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.