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> Lisbon, Kraków, Poland, and Edinburgh are among the cities that have become popular for the industry Since when Poland is a city?
by rehemiau 9y ago
> Lisbon, Kraków, Poland, and Edinburgh are among the cities that have become popular for the industry
Since when Poland is a city?
- LaGrange 9y ago1795. But it's not in Europe.
- biesnecker 9y agoI guess Kraków just isn’t there for name recognition yet? Reordering the sentence would have made the overloaded commas a lot clearer.
- heavenlyblue 9y agoThey did the same to Vilnius though
- gpvos 9y agoApparently also not well-known enough. But by what criteria, I have no idea...
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- mabbo 9y agoThey may have been trying to specify it, like [Lisbon], [Kraków, Poland], [Edinburgh]. They're readers may have literally not heard of Kraków before and need that. Unfortunately, the English language uses the comma for multiple purposes so you get messes like that headline.
- yorwba 9y agoI think they could have used a semicolon instead, as in "Lisbon; Kraków, Poland; Edinburgh are ...".
- nathell 9y agoThere's a village in Christmas Island, Kiribati, by that name.