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what is north? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (52 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Could you enlighten me, then? How on earth does "north of Antarctica" modifiy or add to "the Weddell Sea" in any way, shape, or form?

[–] andyspam 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The Endurance has been found, 3000 metres beneath the Weddell Sea, [which is]north of Antarctica.

See nonrestrictive modifiers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm wondering if you fail to realize that the entirety of the antarctic coast is "north of Antarctica" which makes the description a virtually useless modifier.

Nothing wrong with the grammar, just the logic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

It seems they forgot to mention it was on earth. They really should have indicated it was within the solar system too. No mention of being located in the Milky Way galaxy or the known universe either.

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