roundshort
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Kings, I stand corrected! To be honest we in California like to think we are just one country!
Kingsley said:Well, last time I checked, America was a whole continent and not a single country
Only for the last 100 years (Panama Canal) but, yeah, it's obvious that "U.S. of A." was the intention here...Attila the Professor said:Well, really, last time I checked, it was two...though I think the use of "American" in reference to the United States is pretty well established.
NEVER!!! Habs all the way!roundshort said:I just want to get past Montreal!
Is it really considered as two separate continets there? Is the building of an artificial canal a cause for rearranging the geographical established knowledge? I'm asking genuinely curious, because what I've learned and heard always deals with five continents:Attila the Professor said:Well, really, last time I checked, it was two...though I think the use of "American" in reference to the United States is pretty well established.
You're mixing up continent and geographical mainland.Kingsley said:I'm asking genuinely curious, because what I've learned and heard always deals with five continents:
- America
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Oceania
and you can put Antarctica as a sixth...
Sounds like somebody's got a "little brother" syndrome.Kingsley said:Well, here in Argentina our Geographie books tell us that America is a continent, and it can be subdivided in subcontinents (northamerica, central america, and southamerica). And it sounds logical to me.
You are right about thatFinn said:Sounds like somebody's got a "little brother" syndrome.
roundshort said:this thread has some major "continental" drift!