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Okay. A question that suddenly arose in my mind during a boring bus ride today.
What the hell is the adjective form of UCAS? Or CAS? Or Tir Tairngire? (Or worse, Tir na Nog) It's a common complaint I have about sci-fi (or fantasy) country/state names - there's no allowance for non-noun forms. To wit, in English there's usually an adjective form of a country name. The USA gets "American", the UK "British", Saudi Arabia "Saudi". And so on and so forth. Except with future countries. FASA/FanPro/CGL made it worse by creating countries where both could conceivably use the same damn adjective (see UCAS and CAS), or where the name isn't in any real language, so we can't even derive the adjective form. For UCAS: "UCASian" is like "USAian", a horrific mangling of the language for political correctness. "Canadian-American" has the problem of being rather unwieldy and sounding more like a personal descriptor. It actually gets Are you a "Shiawasian"? A "Saeder-Kruppian"? Gah. I can be liberal on many things, but (and maybe it's me) this drives me batty. |
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Penta Country names and grammar Oct 8 2009, 03:02 AM
wind_in_the_stones UCASers will still be "American".
We w... Oct 8 2009, 03:30 AM
Ancient History QUOTE What the hell is the adjective form of UCAS?... Oct 8 2009, 03:31 AM
rob QUOTE (Ancient History @ Oct 7 2009, 10:3... Oct 8 2009, 03:54 AM
Wacky I'd just go with "United Canadian" f... Oct 8 2009, 03:58 AM
underaneonhalo You can call us CASsers "rebs". We don... Oct 8 2009, 07:14 AM
AK404 Regionalism and history sets in, actually.
Take U... Oct 8 2009, 10:08 AM
rob QUOTE (AK404 @ Oct 8 2009, 06:08 AM) If y... Oct 8 2009, 03:08 PM
AK404 Weird. I'm fairly certain I didn't hit ... Oct 8 2009, 10:08 AM
Chrysalis This can be a nightmare with the United Kingdom fo... Oct 8 2009, 01:20 PM
BishopMcQ Rob - I believe the proper term would be Lush, hic... Oct 8 2009, 04:05 PM
Warlordtheft QUOTE (Penta @ Oct 7 2009, 11:02 PM) What... Oct 8 2009, 04:39 PM
TBRMInsanity UCAS -> American
CAS -> Confederate
CFS -... Oct 8 2009, 05:04 PM
PBI What Canadians in UCAS call themselves would be re... Oct 8 2009, 07:02 PM
TBRMInsanity QUOTE (PBI @ Oct 8 2009, 01:02 PM) What C... Oct 8 2009, 07:26 PM
PBI QUOTE (TBRMInsanity @ Oct 8 2009, 04:26 P... Oct 8 2009, 07:35 PM
Marwynn I thought they were referred to as CanAms or Canam... Oct 8 2009, 07:49 PM
Penta This all came about, FWIW, because I was stuck ima... Oct 8 2009, 09:06 PM
TBRMInsanity QUOTE (Penta @ Oct 8 2009, 03:06 PM) ... Oct 8 2009, 09:57 PM
Chrysalis QUOTE (Penta @ Oct 9 2009, 12:06 AM) This... Oct 8 2009, 10:05 PM
Dikotana QUOTE (Chrysalis @ Oct 8 2009, 06:05 PM) ... Oct 9 2009, 03:57 AM
Nath "American", "Indian", "Co... Oct 9 2009, 08:08 AM![]() ![]() |
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