Constantino
Thank you very much for your explanation for your contemporary, repeat,
contemporary use of "continental Portugal" and also for telling me where
Portugal is situated! Actually, I have been there at least six times as it
is a mere two hour flight from London. I have also driven there and back
three additional times en route for places like Spain, Algeria and Morocco.
I have explored Portugal's many interesting historical and geographical
nooks and corners. I am sure you would be delighted to see it for yourself
if you haven't been there yet.
I very much regret to say that your use of "continental Portugal" is quite
misleading. It is also totally inappropriate and incorrect. Portugal is not
a continent. It has never been one by any stretch of the imagination,
notwithstanding its maritime and military history of eight or more centuries
to which you allude. Portugal actually happens to be a relatively small
European continental country on the windy Atlantic seaboard.
You provide a correct dictionary definition but it merely confirms that your
use of "continental Portugal" is also wrong. You say that, "the North
American continent...Asia and Africa are the two biggest continents." I can
tell you that, this is is what most schoolboys/girls of a certain age
generally know. For you to include miniscule Portugal in this category of
continents is surely to try to re-write geography! Nevertheless, I wish you
luck in this endeavour.
Did you once say on Goanet that you were a regular writer for the weekly
Observer in Goa? The mind simply boggles, but I wish you well.
Cornel
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From: "Constantino Xavier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <goanet@goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 12:21 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Journalism in Portuguese India 1821-1961
Dear Prof. Cornel,
by "continental" I mean the Portuguese territory situated on the European
continent, i.e. on the European mainland. This is where Portugal was
founded and where, for over eight centuries, its capital has been
situated.
continent (LAND) noun [C]
one of the seven large land masses on the Earth's surface, surrounded, or
mainly surrounded, by sea and usually consisting of various countries:
the North American continent
Asia and Africa are the two biggest continents.
continental
adjective
continental waters
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
Message: 8
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:21:50 +0100
From: "cornel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Journalism in Portuguese India 1821-1961
Constantino
Please will you clarify the term you used below...."continental Portugal?"
Thanks
Cornel
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specially in continental Portugal
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