Re:Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
by Dylan16807 on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:19PM
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To the flagged reply: There are multiple ways to count the continents, but the particular reason you mocked for listing two americas was just wrong. I'm not trying to force you to do it my way, but I want you to use basic logic.
And I don't know what your point is about central america. Nobody calls central america a continent.
Re:Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
by jgwil2 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @04:11PM
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Just to add to that, the poster's point is literally contradicted right in the cited article (Spanish wikipedia article on continent):
> En realidad no existe una única forma de fijar el número de continentes y depende de cada área cultural determinar si dos grandes masas de tierra unidas forman uno o dos continentes, y en concreto, decidir los límites entre Europa y Asia (Eurasia) por una parte y América del Norte y América del Sur (América) por otra.
Re:Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
by isaacremuant on Sunday April 16, 2023 @06:39AM
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Yes. That's done to appease the anglos because Historically, it doesn't work like that and, fun fact, nobody but me jumped at OP who said, for all intents and purposes, "the Anglo way is the only way" but when I come with the non Anglo centric view, that's when the users jump and come quickly to correct people.
It's just a great exercise of how these sites work. And that goes for more consequential stuff than this.
This is completely wrong, unless your argument is something like there being only two continents. Which is fine but pretty far from how continents are normally defined and you should probably use a different word.
By far the most egregious continent border is Europe vs. Asia, and Africa is connected to those two just as much as the Americas are connected.
> never quite agreeing what north is depending on the political point being made
You get the same political fussiness around every continent border. But the geographic boundary is pretty well decided to be Panama.