Talk:Macaronesia

message: Somebody add a map please Nergaal 13:22, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: "The name comes from the Greek for "blessed islands"... or maybe not. Maybe Macaronesia is related to Macaronic verse, connoting a heterogeneous mixture of islands with no cohesive category or unified origin. --Wetman 09:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: good joke there, thanks it did not end up in the article. --87.168.67.213 10:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If that's a joke, the article might briefly explain the designation Macaronesia, so easily confused with Macronesia. --Wetman 19:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If it's "not to be confused," with Macronesia, then why does Macronesia refer only to here?  (And, for that matter, it's a self-referential link.)  If Macronesia is a misspelling of Macaronesia, then the article should simply say so in the first sentence, rather than leading one to think Macronesia is something different. --98.215.48.213 (talk) 02:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Quite so, & I have altered it accordingly. --Rothorpe (talk) 23:45, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

text: i don't speak greek, but all sorts of googling supports the idea that mακάρων means BLESSED as wetman said 16 yrs ago, not "unfortunate".  who came up with that?!  2601:19C:527F:A660:FDE2:56F7:2F7C:4C96 (talk) 05:08, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Portal:Macaronesia]] for deletion 

message: In §Etymology: 
: The name Macaronesia is derived from the [Ancient] Greek words meaning "islands of the fortunate" (μακάρων  or , ). 
In the first spelling, is νησοι (underlined) correct? I am unaware of any option of writing Ancient Greek words of more than one syllable without accent marks, and to the best of my recollection I have never seen such spelling, except possibly in function words – never in content words. --Thnidu (talk) 16:01, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, they are the same except the first lacks the accent. I've removed it. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:03, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of Greek name 

message: The Azores are nowhere near Africa, they are closer to Portugal, have their own tectonic plate, and some islands are on it, while others are actually on the North American tectonic plate. Why is someone insisting on describing them as exclusively off the coast of Africa? please speak here. Megustalastrufas (talk) 10:15, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldn't agree more. I also restored the lead to the long-standing version until we get any rationale/establish a consensus. Archives908 (talk) 13:47, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short description