Damn Slinky....

[Allen]

I didn't know I lived in South America...

 

[Slinky Bender]

Did you ever see the New Yorker Magazine cover with the new yorker's pespective of the world?

PS It was going to be a more geographically correct description, but after re-writing it 5 times because it was too confusing, I gave up and decided to make it SA, rather than "everything in the Western Hemisphere South of the US". Hell, on this board, Mexico is in SA.

 

[justme]

Latin America?

 

[Slinky Bender]

Originally posted by justme
Latin America?

Would that include Brazil, Chile, Argentina.....???????

 

[justme]

I think it usually does.

 

[justme]

Their definition is almost word for word what you typed above.

 

[Rufus_M]

So are French speaking regions in South America not part of Latin America?

 

[jseah]

If we are going by the definition of the continents, then what is known as Central America is actually part of North America.

 

[Slinky Bender]

You have no idea how long I've been totally misinformed about what "Latin America" was.

 

[justme]

Originally posted by Rufus_M
So are French speaking regions in South America not part of Latin America?

Did you read the linked definition that I posted above?

 

[justme]

Originally posted by slinkybender
You have no idea how long I've been totally misinformed about what "Latin America" was.

Misinformation about Latin America is pretty common in this country.

 

[justlooking]

French is just as Latinate as Spanish.

 

[justlooking]

So why isn't Quebec included?

 

[pjorourke]

Originally posted by justlooking
So why isn't Quebec included?

They were, but then they voted to secede.

 

[pjorourke]

BTW, should we include Miami posts in Latin America or Florida?

 

[justme]

Originally posted by justlooking
So why isn't Quebec included?

Quebec isn't a country, and Canada more culturally British than
French.

 

[jseah]

Originally posted by justme


Quebec isn't a country, and Canada more culturally British than
French.

not if you speak with someone from Quebec.....

 

[justme]

Yes, well than I suppose that since most of the people that I talk to off Hilcroft are Muslim that the United States is an Islamic country.

 

[justme]

Anyone who doubts the cultural influences on Canada need only to taste their food.

 

[Rufus_M]

re: the def's JM posted...I saw the 2nd one...(see below)...French is certainly a Romance language so they only got it half right I guess...

This seems like a real strained definition though...I'd go with "countries in the Americas other than Canada and the USA"...

So, what are "The countries of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States" that do NOT "(speak) Spanish, Portuguese, or French"??



from the link....

The countries of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States, especially those speaking Spanish, Portuguese, or French.

n : the parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages (Spanish and Portuguese) are spoken [syn: Latin America]