[Ads-l] a semantic question for you

[Dan Goncharoff]

I seem to remember a variety of geographic growth triangles in Asia:
HK-Taiwan-Guangdong, for example.

This is clearly not the same as the Dreilaendereck (three nations corner)
in German, which means a place where the borders of three countries meet.
There are three big ones in Germany.

The Central American triangle seems closer to the growth triangles (which
go back to the 90s, I think) than the Dreilaendereck.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 10:03 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> A question from a friend of mine:
>
> When I was in Freiburg, the staff at the school referred to their area as a
> triangle, a place where Germany, France, and Switzerland meet.
> Now the word triangle is being used to refer to three contiguous Central
> American countries.
> But I haven’t been able to find an explicit definition for this use of the
> word triangle.
> Do you know of a source?
> This use of the word seems to be becoming more and more common.
>
> I found a few uses and sent them to him, but nothing like a formal
> definition. I told him not to expect necessarily to find one: "This is
> *usage*, man." But does anyone know of such?
>
> Mark Mandel
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