Re: Afrasian?

Tim May wrote:
> Let's not forget, also, that Europe is a lot smaller.  If we were only
> now to name the continents for the first time, no-one would create
> Asia and Europe.  You might give Europe a name, as a cultural
> grouping
Or as a geographical segment, similar to how India and neighbors are
often referred to as a "subcontinent", that's how I tend to think of
Europe, anyways, as a subcontinent of Asia on a part with the Indian
subcontinent.

For that matter, Africa is arguably part of the continent, too, as,
until the creation of the Suez Canal, there was no separation between
the two, same with the Americas and the Panama Canal.

I suppose that during the last Ice Age, one could've considered the
world to have only 3 continent, Amero-Afro-Eurasia (or whatever you want
to call it), Australia, and Antarctica.  :-)

ObConlang: My conculture lives on another planet.  The landmass that
they inhabit is a little over half the size of Australia, and I am thus
uncertain as to whether to consider it a large island or a small
continent.  Their planet's landmass is mostly concentrated in a single
gigantic landmass with an area a bit more than half again all of Earth's
land (the planet's diameter is about 10% greater than ours), and a few
smaller landmasses scattered over the ocean

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