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Texas is bigger than California too (by area at least).
by d0lph 10y ago
Texas is bigger than California too (by area at least).
- undersuit 10y agoTexas is bigger than California by area, but Alaska is bigger than either by area. So a well informed reader would look at the statement: "You're the biggest state in the country" and make the correct assumption that the speaker was talking about population and not area.
- stcredzero 10y agoIn Alaska, people joked about dividing the state in two, just to make Texas the 3rd largest state in the US.
- undersuit 10y agoAs a Montana I would object to the demotion to 5th place too.
- maxerickson 10y agoIn Texas, the state actually has the power to divide.
- d0lph 10y agoOr, perhaps a well informed reader would realize that bigger refers to the size of something, and not the population.
- tedunangst 10y agoThere's an interpretation of the statement that's correct and an interpretation that's incorrect, but sure, choose the incorrect one.