• tea@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    Eh, words change and sometimes terms outlive their etymology or grow beyond it. We “hang up the phone” but no phone these days is actually hung up. 🤷

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      20 hours ago

      That’s literally the same thing, we kept the expression even when we know it isn’t accurate any more, because we still have the need to express the original meaning.

      If anything, we should split Asia in more subcontinents.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, fair enough.

        Still seems like, with the way that continent is typically defined, Eurasia should be the continent with subcontients of Europe, Asia, India, and the Middle East.