Removing the word China/Chinese from phrases/labels

[Chris]

@eCanada

No, she said it was political. She suggested i say mandrin because we’re not in China, and technically that’s the name of the language

Americans, Canadians, Australians, etc. speak English, but they’re not from England.

[Buttnutz]

Thats why “australia amount of km2” works

[Marco]

@Buttnutz

Thats why “australia amount of km2” works

For you, but it’s your opinion and not necessarily true.

[meishijia]

Not his opinion.

It is an accepted fact that Australia is the smallest continent, so anything smaller than it is not a continent.

[Marco]

Do you have a source?

[tando]

@Marco

Do you have any scientific definition?

the meaing of continent is not a science. It is defined by convention.

[Marco]

Except there is no agreement to that definition.

There remains wide disagreement as to what continents and islands are.

[meishijia]

@meishijia

Australia is the smallest continent

@Marco

Do you have a source?

Continent

Australia/Oceania is the smallest continent.

[Andrew]

@Marco

That’s your opinion. Australia also changes size every day.

So you see the issue with trying the classify the natural world into strict categories. Many things are like this when you get into the fine details - dividing organisms into families/genera/etc., categorizing biomolecules or fields of scientific study, and so on.

At some point the criteria are always arbitrary and fuzzy at the edges, so I don’t think it’s useful to dwell on things like the absolute distinction between islands and continents. Especially not in this thread. There’s no definite answer or authority to appeal to here, just conventional usage. And we all have a feeling for what the word “island” means, which may change with the context.

[tando]

@Marco

That’s your opinion.

not a personal opinion. A widely accepted concept.

[Marco]

@tando

@Marco

That’s your opinion.

not a personal opinion. A widely accepted concept.

By who?

[meishijia]

National Geographic Society apparently.

Continent

[Explant]

@Chris

@eCanada

No, she said it was political. She suggested i say mandrin because we’re not in China, and technically that’s the name of the language

Americans, Canadians, Australians, etc. speak English, but they’re not from England.

England isnt, currently, commiting genocide and trying to (publicly) take over the world. If china was sane and lacking in psychotic tendancies, agreed!

[tando]

@Marco

Except there is no agreement to that definition.

there are several ways of definition doesn’t mean all of them are equal. By contexts the term is used, there are more commonly accepted definitions and less accepted ones.

[Buttnutz]

Thats your opinion

[Marco]

@meishijia

National Geographic Society apparently.

Continent

What are Continents?

Again, there is little definition to it.

@tando

there are several ways of definition doesn’t mean all of them are equal. By contexts the term is used, there are more commonly accepted definitions and less accepted ones.

Even your source says there is little agreement.

[meishijia]

There is little agreement to what a continent is, but there is almost total agreement that there are seven continents and Australia is the smallest.

[Marco]

@meishijia

There is little agreement to what a continent is, but there is almost total agreement that there are seven continents and Australia is the smallest.

I just showed a picture above that suggests that there are four, five and variations of six continents and there are sources for that.

[tando]

@Marco

By who?

vast majority of people who know the word. Source? My common sense.

[Marco]

@tando

@Marco

By who?

vast majority of people who know the word. Source? My common sense.

Again, I’ve shown proof that there is little agreement as to what are continents.

Every country teaches differently cause there is no agreement.