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minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·20 hours agoThe Caucasus is half in asia. So if we are being most pedantic, then ‘being from the Caucasus region’ does not indicate if you are from asia or not.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours agoI’m not debating that, because it has nothing to do with whether the words Caucasus and Asia have the same origin, which they objectively, pedantically, do not. Caucasus derives from Scythian language, whereas “Asia” comes from the Hittite language.
The Caucasus is half in asia.
So if we are being most pedantic, then ‘being from the Caucasus region’ does not indicate if you are from asia or not.
I’m not debating that, because it has nothing to do with whether the words Caucasus and Asia have the same origin, which they objectively, pedantically, do not. Caucasus derives from Scythian language, whereas “Asia” comes from the Hittite language.