The name "Sharlayan" drives me crazy.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

It’s not unheard of irl.

For example, Romani (or Roma) can refer to the people as a collective noun “The Romani people” or as an adjective “Romani culture” or “Romani dress”.

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Thank you! I was trying to search my brain if there were any countries or places that did the same and couldn't find one.

I mean, to be fair, even the word "English" is used in a variety of ways.

As an adjective describing people from England or the language.
As a noun of the language itself.

..I could very well be an English English Teacher speaking English.

But you don't say you come from English, is the issue.

Or call things England tea, England People.

Countries that do the same or similar things, in alphabetical order (not necessarily all countries) (For the record, these are called Demonyms)

Botswana - Botswana
Kiribati - I-Kiribati
Laos - Laos
Myanmar - Myanmars
Sahwrawi - Sahwrawis

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Originally Posted by Nekaru_Infitima

But you don't say you come from English, is the issue.

Or call things England tea, England People.

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That was not my point;

My point was words, like English, can mean a variety of things.

Moreover, it is that it is not uncommon for spellings to be shared between Nouns/Adjectives or Verbs, whether they share meanings or not. As the "Famous" example, "Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

More-moreover, this is not that uncommon in languages outside of English. English is actually pretty weird in having a huge variety of suffixes to make an adjective-form of a country. Many languages just translate it to "Person from England" or "Of England".

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Originally Posted by kaynide

I mean, to be fair, even the word "English" is used in a variety of ways.

As an adjective describing people from England or the language.
As a noun of the language itself.

..I could very well be an English English Teacher speaking English.

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That's better than being a ship-shipping ship shipping shipping ships.

I always thought it was Sharlay until I was corrected by an FC member who told me the country is Sharlayan. I had assumed that Sharlayan was the term used to mean something or someone of Sharlay.