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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (45 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.

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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.

[–] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Or - bear with me here - it’s just a funny detail and people are laughing about it. Because any sea is obviously going to be north of it

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Just looking at that map seems to show the Ross sea to the south

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 month ago

Nothing is more South than the south pole. Everything is north of it. The map is looking directly at the "bottom" of the earth.

[–] ardrak@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Probably the author made this exact mistake

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sir do you know how globes work?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

I think he's probably trolling us, because he's doubling down on it elsewhere in the thread in face of all the people explaining it to him. Nobody is that dumb.

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