[Ads-l] a semantic question for you

[Jonathan Lighter]

Check Wikipedia for various "Iron Triangles."

The earliest may have been in North Korea.

The one in South Vietnam was often alluded to in wartime news reports.

JL

JL



On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:17 AM Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

> In Asia there is also the Golden Triangle (Thailand, Burma, & Laos.)
> Dave Hause
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Goncharoff
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 9:58 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: a semantic question for you
>
> 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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