Started an argument with my much smarter wife because she said North and South America are not two separate continents. She was right, because continents are only defined by convention.

  • FundMECFS
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    703 months ago

    Yeah. People in the US learn about 7 continents at school. In France, we learn about the 5 continents.

    • @drolex@sopuli.xyz
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      173 months ago

      N’importe quoi, y a la chocolatine du nord et la chocolatine du sud, ça fait 6, retourne à ton école pourrave à Paimpont (j’ai rien contre Paimpont, c’est très pimpant).

      • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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        253 months ago

        I hope that’s really the gibberish my browser’s translate function tells me it is

        • FundMECFS
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          53 months ago

          It’s very logical.

          There’s north chocolatine (basically hillbilly way to say pain au chocolat) and south chocolatine, which according to the above commenter of extremely high IQ, means there as 6 continents instead of five.

          • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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            43 months ago

            Maybe some of it is literal word for word translation vs accounting for grammatical differences but …

            Anything, there’s northern chocolate and southern chocolate, it’s 6, go back to your school in Paimpont (I have nothing against Paimpont, it’s very pimpant).

    • @josefo@leminal.space
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      23 months ago

      What seven, America is two and Europe/Asia is counted twice also? I’m from elsewhere and also learned 5

      • JackbyDev
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        3 months ago

        American here.

        1. North America
        2. South America
        3. Europe
        4. Asia
        5. Africa
        6. Australia (and Oceania)
        7. Antarctica