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by kompatible
1590 days ago
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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 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. |
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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
> So, for people to bring it over as 'America' can sometimes be seen as pedantry instead of insightfulness.
Of course it is pedantry.