06 May 10 07:57, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> RN> Those are oceans.

 RW>> An ocean consists of certain bodies of water, i.e. the Atlantic
 RW>> Ocean consists of the following seas. Some say that only saline
 RW>> bodies of water should be considered.

 RN> I'm going by what I was taught.

I'm going on what I was taught to use; the latest information available.

 RW>> In that case, you would have to include all small bodies of water
 RW>> that make up each ocean.

 RN> Why?  I'm sure that when some sailor said "I sailed the 7 seas" he
 RN> was referring to the known 7 seas at that time.

Which might have applied in his time, but then the entire earth wasn't
fully explored at that time. Today there are several 'seas' that make up
one ocean at a time.

 RN> Things are too convoluted mowadays.  For example, a relatively new
 RN> word has sprung into the news media lexicon (although it was there
 RN> before).  They are now using the word pandemic instead of widespread,
 RN> which is one less syllable, but proves the media is full of blowhards
 RN> with a thesaurus.

Rush Limbaugh complained about that twenty years ago when he used the word
gravitas to explain someone elses treatment of a certain subject. The
media picked up on that word and that's all you heard for two years. Most
of them didn't even know what the word meant, as they used it out of
context.

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