Submitted 1 year ago by soumerd_retardataire@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
If someone says “there’s been a bombing” I will understand it is in the premises of where I am because that HOW LANGUAGE WORKS you fucking moron.
Omit the location in a location dependent phrase and the location is your location.
Stop spreading toxicity otherwise you’re the terrorist too.
Thanks for your comment, may i have your opinion on this answer ? lemmy.world/comment/5083460
OP quite obviously trolling based on subsequent comments
And what would i gain by trolling(, in the sense of not engaging in a debate but simply responding by mocking the other ?the context of the sentence i read :
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Is that what happens when redditors use 100% of their brain?
And your argument is ?
The anguish isn’t the confoubding factor here. No one’s saying you shoudn’t care, there is no ingroup mentality etc. You just didn’t specify a place. That’s literally it.
If you said, “there’s ice cream,” I also would assume you meant somewhere close.
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.
irmoz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Lmao you’re trying really hard to make this deep