• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    17 days ago

    If “north of Antarctica” isn’t enough to narrow it down, here are a few tips: it’s also south of the Arctic, further from the Sun than Venus, closer to the Sun than Mars. Now it’s easy to find it!

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Mark here either has poor reading comprehension, or is intentionally being a little shit by cherry picking part of the title and not reading the whole thing.

    The location specified is not ‘north of Antarctica’.

    It is, ‘the Weddell Sea, north of Antarctica.’

    Giving ‘the Weddell Sea’ as the location is actually decently specific, and the ‘north of Antarctica’ that follows is modifying / adding to the description of ‘the Weddell Sea’… not the entirety of the location description.

    I would snarkily, rhetorically, ask if people are even taught how to diagram out a sentence structure anymore, but I already know the answer is ‘not really, no’, because the average adult American literacy level is that of a 6th grader.

    Mark, and anyone else who also finds this to be a funny, poignant zinger, need to go back to middle school and relearn grammar.

    • Tja@programming.dev
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      17 days ago

      Nope. You could as well say: Mediterranean Sea, north of Antarctica.

      I have two dollars, less than infinity.

      The temperature is pleasant, higher than absolute zero.

      Doesn’t add anything. There are no seas south of Antarctica.

  • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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    17 days ago

    Are kids today so Vine-brained they don’t understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    Anyway this turns only absurd if it referred to the exact pole, geographic or magnetic, but not from the continent as is.