Marco Arment
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I'm just saying that no one uses mainland on Long Island.
We don't use some other incorrect term instead.
Oh, my God, John.
You know what I'm saying?
It's not a thing that gets referred to.
We're talking about Manhattan, but that's also an island.
They would never say that.
And yet it would be the right term if they chose to do that.
It would be correct.
You could have said that correctly in that instance, but you didn't because it's not a thing that's done.
But if you did say it, it would be correct.
Because that is a continent, or the main part of a continent, distinguished from an offshore island.
They would be confused, but you would say, technically I'm using the right word.
When you grow up there, that's the claim.
The claim is growing up there makes all the difference.
Yeah, you don't feel like you have an ownership of a place like that.