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Dennis Lindsey "scouting" in Europe

heyhey said:
They teach that here too. yes it is wrong. The only reason it get's to be a continent is because Europeans want it to be one. It's not. My evidence...
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I see your point. So how many continents are there according to your thinking? Do you count Greenland as one? I kinda agree with you on the Europe but besides it's being a very stupid concern, I see there is quite arbitrary perception of the term "continent". If Europe is continent, then what is Greenland? If Greenland is just a large island then what are the other continents?

Though I don't understand what you mean with, "The only reason it get's to be a continent is because Europeans want it to be one." It sounds like, damn those stupid Europeans blah blah.. Why on the earth would a european want Europe to be a continent? I am hundred percent sure none of them, or to be more realistic, except an insignificant amount of them, would actually care..
 
heyhey said:
They teach that here too. yes it is wrong. The only reason it get's to be a continent is because Europeans want it to be one. It's not. My evidence...

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A continent has always been defined by convention, not by physical geography...India and Europe are in no way analogous.
 
Fun facts regarding the English(or American) language:

- English has official or special status in at least seventy five countries with a total population of over two billion

- English is spoken as a first language by around 375 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world*

- Speakers of English as a second language probably outnumber those who speak it as a first language

- around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language

- one out of four of the world's population speak English to some level of competence; demand from the other three-quarters is increasing.

https://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-faq-the-english-language.htm
 
akirac73 said:
Fun facts regarding the English(or American) language:

- English has official or special status in at least seventy five countries with a total population of over two billion

- English is spoken as a first language by around 375 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world*

- Speakers of English as a second language probably outnumber those who speak it as a first language

- around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language

- one out of four of the world's population speak English to some level of competence; demand from the other three-quarters is increasing.

https://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-faq-the-english-language.htm
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Well I hope it beats Chinese for being the future's universal language, Chinese looks impossible to learn to me.


Hotttnickkk said:
You're not a Christian, I take it?
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You're right.. Was my post offensive?
 
Hotttnickkk said:
Noo.. not at all. It's the name of one of the books in the Bible, so if you're a Christian you would be very familiar with that, that's all. :)
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Oh, actually now I listened how it's pronounced and it's not unfamiliar at all. In fact it's very very close to the word kilise which means church in Turkish and probably related to the very same word(from greek or latin I believe).

Plus it's probably as much as known amongst Muslims, because it's none other than what we call Zebur(also used for wider meaning for Psalms) in Turkish. (it's also in Quran)

PS.. Sorry for off-topic.
 
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