Feelz wrote:
So according to your great wisdom, the Korean peninsula is made of 2 distinct peninsula?
No, because North Korea isn't a peninsula.
Eske wrote:
Actually, according to Alma's logic, it's made up of an infinite number of peninsuli, one existing wherever you subjectively decide to draw the lines. Any landmass attached to the Korean peninsula is, "by definition" the Korean Peninsula. Kazakhstan is part of the Korean Peninsula, just like Mississippi is part of the Florida Peninsula.
Kazakhstan isn't surrounded by water, so no it is not practical for land mass to be made up of an infinite number of peninsuli and I don't even think it is theoretically either. Besides, you proved my point by stating that not all of Florida is a peninsula. That is a much better example than using Mississippi.
Bijou wrote:
Try as I might, I can't get this statement to make sense.
So...if someone talk about Manhattan they never mention that it's an island??
It's just like the weather man example I just used. When people say the Florida Peninsula, I think it is safe that most people are thinking the entire state as opposed to the parts that are actually part of the peninsula. If you live in Florida, you might make that distinction, but for everyone else, it's one state.
Or another example, cities that are in two separate states such as Memphis. When people say "where is Memphis?" They say Tennessee. Technically, Memphis is in Tennessee and in Arkansas.
Or another example, islands. People say that Japan and Hawaii are islands. That's wrong, they are technically groups of islands. The actual geography matters less in reference to man-made regions.
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I concede.
As I said before, this isn't my terminology that I created. This what people who live in Korea say. I'll stick with that terminology, where South Korea is a peninsula and the Korean Peninsula is the composition of the two countries. If it bothers you so much that a country that is surrounded by water on three boarders is called a peninsula, then that sounds like a personal problem to me.