Marco Arment

I'm sorry.

I can go descriptivist with you, but there's a reason we have the word continent.

No, it's... Okay.

What about New Zealand?

I don't... Well, isn't that crazy?

This is like a Robot or Not episode.

Can you imagine that there's a definition that depends on the size of things?

That a very small thing is like a pebble in the water is not an island, but then like Pangea is not an island, but something in between is an island?

How does that work?

That's just the nature of the language we use to describe things.

And all I'm saying is mainland is the wrong word.

you are wrong well no i think everyone in fire island is just using the wrong word but i understand that it's a cultural thing and they like to say the mainland is just they just happen to pick the wrong word because they don't have another word it would be interesting to see if like someone from hawaii could tell me whether they use mainland to refer to like the big island or whatever probably not because they do call it no well because and but the size differences between the hawaii islands big island hawaii compared to those little tiny ones it's probably a similar size difference

Yeah, I don't actually know anything about Hawaii, so I can't comment on, but it's similar in nature in that when you're going from some tiny little speck to something that's massively larger and you call that the mainland.

And of course, obviously, people in Hawaii have the continental United States to refer to as the mainland, but...

I just want to say that in addition to all the other things that you do nomenclature wise related to Fire Island, the referring to Long Island as the mainland is nonsensical and I hate it.

But apparently it's everyone in Fire Island, not just you.

No one on Long Island refers to the mainland.

Right.

You're making my point for me.

I'm not making my point.