Posted April 4th, 2005 @ 03:08pm by Erik J. Barzeski
When ordering the Adobe Photoshop CS 2 upgrade today, I noticed that their shipping had a few options, like "Continental US" and "Alaska" and "Hawaii" for the same DHL Express service.
Since when did Alaska get stuck on another continent?
Might I suggest the term "contiguous" United States? Cuz, last I checked, Alaska was still stuck to North America.
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Posted 04 Apr 2005 at 3:55pm #
The word commonly used for referring to the lower 48 states is contiguous. Still, both are much more appropriate than continental. Idiots.
Posted 04 Apr 2005 at 6:09pm #
Yeah, it's a silly mistake, but it's so common that I've given up and just ignore it. People seem to get it wrong at least 50% of the time, so it's not worth my time to correct them or even pay any attention to it.
Posted 05 Apr 2005 at 11:09am #
Yes it is silly and annoying but I do have a question.
I have no clue where the tetonic plates lay that far north... and I suppose most are in the same boat as me. So maybe just maybe a few people thought some of the islands that string out into the Bearing Sea my technecally be part of Asia so the used the term "Continental". I know silly reason why the term might be use... but its a theory.