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New Zealand is now a city in Australia?
by Cyph0n 6y ago
New Zealand is now a city in Australia?
- jacquesm 6y agoHow on earth did you get that from what I wrote?
- varjag 6y agoI think they just nitpick rather than genuinely misunderstand your point, but yes the 'Place, Bigger-place' is a common form of toponyms in American English.
- jacquesm 6y agoI think it was sufficiently disambiguated by the word 'dedicated', it wouldn't be possible to have Australia both dedicated to agriculture and to have a city the size of New Zealand inside it. But thank you for explaining.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoMisparsed it as something with structure like this, "I'm just trying to imagine a city the size of [Chicago, Illinois] devoted to agriculture[,] and the rest of the planet devoted to nature." I did the same thing and had to read it twice.
- Cyph0n 6y agoIt's just a joke based on the structure of your sentence. Should have included a /s or something I guess.
- MikeTheGreat 6y agoI had the same thought (both my initial misreading, and the idea of making the joke). I went to primary/secondary school in the United States. I feel like this joke is the sort of thing that an English teacher would say to me in response to me writing something like this (which I'm sure I did). I think part of the humor (for me, at least) is the refrain of that particular (and common) criticism :)
- samatman 6y agoA with placed between New Zealand, and Australia, would not have gone amiss.
- sjburt 6y agoI think "Australia devoted to agriculture" is meant to be a separate clause.
- ehnto 6y agoNew Zealand is a state of Australia according to the Australian constitution. It's just that New Zealand thought that was a bit silly and never paid it any attention, and Australia thought that was fair enough.
- vulcan01 6y agoHoly crap, this is actually true. I thought it was a joke. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/revealed-the-real-reason-new-zealand-didn-t-become-part-of-australia.html https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/revealed-...
- ehnto 6y agoYep! I can never find them, but there were even World War style anti-australian propaganda posters depicting Australians as white supremacist monsters coming to take over NZ. I don't know who they were distributed by at the time and I can never get a Google search to turn anything up.