Etymology of words to describe people from the west asian subcontinent.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Bangladesh did.

The cheating Ceylonkians did, too. They go down as subcontinentals as far as cricket boundaries go.

WTF?

Bangladesh made it?

This is ultimately ironic - India and Pakistan united in humiliation against Bangladesh.

[aneeshm]

At least we didn't murder our coach.




But he did resign today. For "personal reasons".

[Provost Harrison]

Entomology? Are you calling them insects?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
At least India didn't murder their coach, though.

That's cause they have no balls

[lord of the mark]

the correct name for people from the subcontinent appended to the western end of Asia is "Europeans"

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
the correct name for people from the subcontinent appended to the western end of Asia is "Europeans"

QFT. We don't call them West Asians.

If a landmass jutting off of Asia (and separated from the rest of it by high mountains) having a distinct family of cultures, histories, and languages qualifies as a continent, then India is a continent

[Colon™]

The correct name for the continent is "Eurasia".

Asia is the eastern apendage.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by LordShiva


QFT. We don't call them West Asians.

If a landmass jutting off of Asia (and separated from the rest of it by high mountains) having a distinct family of cultures, histories, and languages qualifies as a continent, then India is a continent

Europe is not a continent. Apparently back when the greeks were naming things, they didnt feel comfortable enough with such knowledge as they had of the north and east shores of the Black Sea to determine that Europe and Asia were connected.

Both Europe and "India" (IE the geographic entity, not just the Rep of India) are subcontinents.


New Guinea is sometimes called a "hemi-continent"

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


New Guinea is sometimes called a "hemi-continent"

Is there a reason for this, or is it just so it can big itself up to Borneo?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Dauphin


Is there a reason for this, or is it just so it can big itself up to Borneo?

My understanding is because the species (in biology) and cultures and languages (anthropology) are so diverse, and so different from either southeast asia or Australia, due to historic seperations. Ive seen the word used mainly by Jared Diamond.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Europe is not a continent. Apparently back when the greeks were naming things, they didnt feel comfortable enough with such knowledge as they had of the north and east shores of the Black Sea to determine that Europe and Asia were connected.

They knew very well that Europe and Asia were connected North of the Black Sea. It's just they didn't think of either as a "continent" in the sense of a major landmass surrounded by water.

I'll once again point out the superiority of Swedish, where we distinguish between världsdelar, the traditional divisions of the world like Europe, Asia, etc, and kontinenter, the geographical landmasses like Eurasia, Australia, etc.

[Cort Haus]

We could go as far as to call Africa a subcontinent too.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


My understanding is because the species (in biology) and cultures and languages (anthropology) are so diverse, and so different from either southeast asia or Australia, due to historic seperations. Ive seen the word used mainly by Jared Diamond.

Biologically, New Guinea doesn't differ more from Australia than various parts of, say, mainland Africa differ from one another. This should come as no surprise - the two landmasses were connected as late as during the last ice age.

A better candidate to the title of "hemicontinent", from the biological PoV, would be Madagascar, which isn't all that much smaller, and has been cut off from the African and Indian mainlands since the Cretaceous. Of course, it cannot begin to match New Guinea's ethnological diversity.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
We could go as far as to call Africa a subcontinent too.

In that case, North America is one too.

[Perfection]

I call them Pakmen.