From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,14aae54b2a5f9c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,14aae54b2a5f9c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-30 02:31:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!eos From: "Philip Anderson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc,talk.bizarre References: <6f07b246012ce00b048b501ff038bbf8.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> Subject: Re: Continentalizing the UK (still): Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:26:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net (please include full headers) X-Trace: 6340000321e023220df333c832507930e638de403224e2b9412010333ca59413 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:31:47 GMT Message-ID: <1017484307.4053.0@eos.uk.clara.net> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21884 misc.misc:5985 talk.bizarre:20885 Date: 2002-03-30T10:26:31+00:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan wrote in message <6f07b246012ce00b048b501ff038bbf8.48257@mygate.mailgate.org>... >In comp.lang.ada "Preben Randhol" wrote: > >> Pat Rogers wrote: >> > For that matter, in the UK we are called "Yanks" (not that the UK is part of >> > Europe :-). > >> Huh? What continent is UK part of? > >Unless you side with John Donne, that no empire is an island, each is a >piece of the continent, a part of the main, I'd suggest that at least >the British Isles are just that. Since the UK was once globe spanning, >asking of what continent it is a part doesn't make much sense. The UK [the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland] was never globe-spanning, though the British Empire was. >xanthian. > >Nobody _must_ be a piece of a continent, continents are just >conventions: Europe is firmly attached to Asia, yet they are called >different continents, Britain is in no way attached to Europe, so why >should they be called parts of the same continent? It's attached by the Continental Shelf, has been separated by water for only a few thousand years and is now linked by the Channel Tunnel. More to the point, there is no cultural divide (except in the minds of some Little Englanders). -- hwyl/cheers Philip Anderson Cymru/Wales