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#588467 - 01/17/13 06:03 PM Re: Continents [Re: DLC]
Leslie Proud MacBabe. Happy everything to everybody. Registered: 05/06/05 Posts: 3603 Loc: B.C. Canada
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#588475 - 01/17/13 08:04 PM Re: Continents [Re: Leslie]
DLC I invented modding! Registered: 11/04/02 Posts: 17211 Loc: Lindale, TX (Tyler)	Really !! _________________________ David (OFI)
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#588511 - 01/18/13 04:17 AM Re: Continents [Re: DLC]
lanovami This space for rent Registered: 05/02/05 Posts: 7299 Loc: 東京都	And there's Atlantis too. Europe probably used to be an A, but the Europeans didn't want to get lumped together with everyone else... _________________________ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle
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#588522 - 01/18/13 07:15 AM Re: Continents [Re: DLC]
MrB I invented modding! Registered: 08/28/03 Posts: 8285 Loc: SE Kansas	Oh, my. I see an additional appearance of another birth certificate. How many will that make now? Dave _________________________ There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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#588549 - 01/18/13 06:52 PM Re: Continents [Re: MrB]
carp Dino's are Babe magnets Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 27021 Loc: Hawaii	LOL Well more likely the names came from Vespucci. ORIGIN the name America dates from the early 16th cent. and is believed to derive from the Latin form ( Americus) of the name of Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed along the west coast of South America in 1501. I can hear it now - in best Italian Oh no I ran into this pice of shiit land , I'll call it America ! (then he sailed North) Oh no another pice of shiit land I'll call this one North America. He then went back to Italy to brag about his new found pieces of shiit . Later he set sail again to the south but this time steering clear from the other America shiit. Oh no whats this pice of shiit land (now out of America names) I'll call this one Australia _________________________
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#588554 - 01/18/13 08:06 PM Re: Continents [Re: carp]
yoyo52 Nothing comes of nothing. Registered: 05/25/01 Posts: 30520 Loc: PA, USA	The "a" ending makes it a feminine. Why feminine may be connected to what Zeus did to Europa. Gotta exploit that territory. _________________________ MACTECH ubi dolor ibi digitus
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#588556 - 01/18/13 08:58 PM Re: Continents [Re: yoyo52]
carp Dino's are Babe magnets Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 27021 Loc: Hawaii	I think it is more of a translation from Latin to another name that sticks better. Like posted above Amerigo -> Americus -> America. I surmise for the (a) as feminine as you say - could be as a new birth as in from a woman = the promise of new born ? ? Edited by carp (01/18/13 09:08 PM) _________________________
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#588572 - 01/19/13 08:27 AM Re: Continents [Re: carp]
yoyo52 Nothing comes of nothing. Registered: 05/25/01 Posts: 30520 Loc: PA, USA	Read the story of Zeus and Europa. _________________________ MACTECH ubi dolor ibi digitus
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