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anas@lemmy.world 5 days agoIf I said “we need public transit as a city” am I assuming that everyone lives in my city or am I simply talking about my own city?
That’s exactly what I would assume, because you’re talking like your city is the default and everyone knows which one you’re talking about.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I still don’t see how saying that you want x or y in your country is equivalent to talking like your community is the default.
I would totally agree if the statement was “we need x in my country and you all should vote for it” because that would be assuming everyone reading is able to participate and therefore lives there. But that’s far from what the statement was, which made no assumptions and didn’t even mention a country. All they said was that they want something in their country.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 days ago
“We need this as a city” and “we need this in my city” have a different meaning imo. First one makes it sound like you’re including us in your “we”, as in the people in your city.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Doesn’t “as a city” just tell you who the “we” refers to? As in “we, the people of our city, need x”? That’s how I understand it.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yes it does imo, and the “we” would include everyone else as part of that city, which is what bothers some people.