When "foreign country/overseas" is mentioned in fantasy/alternate world works (especially those set in inland nations), I think "huh?"

When "foreign country/overseas" is mentioned in fantasy/alternate world works (especially those set in inland nations), I think "huh?"

ん? ってなる奴

In fantasy/otherworld works, when a foreign country is written as "overseas," it makes me think "Huh?" Some people might wonder "What does that mean? What's wrong with that?" but something about it bothers me... or rather, it catches on something. That "overseas" — what does it even mean? If a work describes a foreign country as "overseas" but then writes "they traveled to the neighboring country by carriage," I think "Huh??" If you're calling a foreign country "overseas," then "Is the neighboring country connected by land so you can go there by carriage? Is there a shallow ford that only appears at low tide? Or is this a fantasy world where there's a carriage that travels over the sea or on the ocean floor!?"

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Words 504
Sentences 46
Characters 958
Unique Words 190
1-Occurrence Words
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Unique Kanji 125
1-Occurrence Kanji
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Avg Word Difficulty 2.21
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Word List (190 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
イギリス14.25
頂ける13.53
留学14.19
故に13.04
んです12.32
干潮15.99
には11.57
帝国12.71
12.65
11.71
刷り込み15.02
キャラ13.48
あり12.26
異世界12.94
言い出す13.62
ハードル14.33
12.64
おかしい12.76
意味22.49
21.95
無意識23.59
称する24.68
海上24.06
22.65
する21.24
22.57
23.06
でも21.70
内陸部24.96
てる21.65
行ける23.40
21.16
では21.75
ので21.80
陸地24.35
どういう22.81
海外留学26.04
言う21.56
哭く22.05
日本23.01
海中24.02
22.74
国家23.34
しまう22.03
作者23.83
なの22.22
から21.17
馬車32.74
32.85
隣国33.75
地続き35.21
31.04
海洋国家35.09
でしょうか32.77
出て来る34.09
32.34
って31.78
それとも33.02
32.73
とは31.95
他国33.41
書く32.69
32.04
である41.76
42.74
なる41.37
島国54.64
大陸52.89
作品53.46
なので52.48
して61.31
その61.44
表記64.22
いる61.00
71.75
思う71.61
70.56
在る81.55
と言う91.58
100.54
100.86
100.48
外国114.10
こと141.30
140.48
170.41
172.34
海外174.19
210.77
450.28

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