continents

[Mark A Mandel]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Lynne Murphy wrote:

#Asian" or just "Indian/Pakistani/etc."  In the UK and South Africa, if one
#says that someone's "Asian" they mean 'South Asian'.  If they mean "East
#Asian" they're more likely to use a specific country name (in SA, it's
#often generic use of "Chinese") or "Oriental" or some such.

Didn't UKEng "Oriental" used to begin at Suez or so?

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large