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ilega_dh@feddit.nl 7 months ago
If you tell someone “there’s a fire!” with anguish they’ll assume it’s in the building because what moron phrases it like that if it doesn’t directly impact the person you’re speaking to.
This is more im14andthisisdeep material than shouwerthought
soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh, ok, so that’s because we’re not concerned by this, they’re not “us”, understood.
(it’s not geographical since europeans will be more impacted by deaths in the west than, e.g., in Africa, it’s more of a tribal thing)
I also hesitated to post « If you always agree with “the”( only) point of view of mainstream medias, then you should find it weird », because it’s different in foreign medias that we never read(, iranian, venezuelan, russian, chinese, zimbabwean, …), we usually call “foreign medias” those who are still in the west and aligned with our international policies. But i thought that this sentence was even more im14andthisisdeep material than showerthought, do you agree ?
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Place is implied. The logical implication would be local to the speakers.
We know the bombing took place elsewhere.
If you were in Afghanistan, and a bombing took place in america, “theres been a bombing” would imply it’s local to afghanistan.
soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As i said previously :
Place is implied. Could be anywhere in the west, if i’m in France it works for the south//north of France, the United Kingdom, America, Australia, or any country i feel like i belong to, that is in my tribe.
But if you say afterwards :
And that place is in the Middle-East, or in Afghanistan, we would say “yeah, of course, like yesterday and probably tomorrow, no need to ne surprised”
But thanks for wanting to correct me, it’s nice to have a chat with other people than from Lemmygrad for once.
DmMacniel@feddit.de 7 months ago
do you know how the English language works? The place hasn’t been implied at all. And thus it default to local when there are no further question to clarify.
irmoz@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Lmao you’re trying really hard to make this deep
soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes and no, while i do agree that this is considered normal behaviour, i also long for a world in which we would be able to say “there’s a bombing !” with as much anguish whether its in ‘the U.s.’/Europe, or in the Middle-East, Africa, etc. It’s not that much normal i think
irmoz@reddthat.com 7 months ago
We are able to do that lmao