Re: Lua Workshop 2012

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 02:48:41AM +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 23:54, Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Besides, it's typical for conferences to rotate continents.
> 
> Oh, well, lets do it in Asia[1] then. I know a venue in Omsk[2],
> southwestern Siberia, Russia. :-)
> 
> Alexander.
> 
> [1] Surprisingly Asia is a continent in English. Not so in Russian.

Not surprising. There's no agreed upon notion of what constitutes a
"continent". Like "race" it's a psuedo-scientific construct which emerged
long ago. This is a fun video:

	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34#!

What are Russian school children taught? I grew up thinking there were 7
continents, until I met a girl from S. America who claimed there were only
5. (I have no memory how that topic came up.)