Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list

Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by thiago_fm on Friday March 15, 2024 @06:57AM (#39714165)

A metropolitan area isn't a city. She/he said city. Why are people in HN so pedantic and typically wrong about things?

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by vidarh on Friday March 15, 2024 @07:49AM (#39714482)

At least Moscow is bigger in terms of within it's city limits too, though, but then unless we want to be pedantic we get into what the person meant by "continental Europe". To what extent people colloquially refer to any part of Russia when talking about Europe varies greatly.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by LAC-Tech on Friday March 15, 2024 @03:14PM (#39719614)

any school boy knows west of the urals = europe

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by vidarh on Friday March 15, 2024 @04:14PM (#39720221)

Most of us are no longer in school, and lots of people forget that as soon as they learn it, but it's also entirely irrelevant to the question of how the term was used. "Europe" is very commonly used as a synonym for the EEA or even just EU many places today, no matter how incorrect that is.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by LAC-Tech on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:54PM (#39721114)

and lots of people forget that as soon as they learn it

Great, then we don't need to hear from these people. They don't need opinions or view points about things they were never intersted in, never learned about, and couldn't be bothered to remember.

"Europe" is very commonly used as a synonym for the EEA or even just EU many places today, no matter how incorrect that is.

The term was very specifically "Continental Europe".

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by vidarh on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:04AM (#39724361)

It's not up to you to decide whether or not people express opinions about whatever they please, and frankly that sentiment comes across as deeply arrogant and unpleasant. if that's the tack you want to take you can continue this discussion with someone else.

> The term was very specifically "Continental Europe".

And "continental" in Europe very often is just used as a "but not the UK" modifier.

You can argue about the correct meaning all you want, but it is entirely irrelevant to whether or not that is how it was actually being used.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by LAC-Tech on Saturday March 16, 2024 @06:55AM (#39724775)

frankly that sentiment comes across as deeply arrogant and unpleasant

I don't care what you think about me.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by tpm on Friday March 15, 2024 @08:13AM (#39714669)

The original poster is obviously wrong.

Also comparing city populations within city limits is exactly being too pedantic, because Paris is one example where the administrative city is much smaller than the real city.

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