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Sounds like you understood him perfectly well, then. Not sure why all this writing was necessary in that case.
by jhgb 5y ago
Sounds like you understood him perfectly well, then. Not sure why all this writing was necessary in that case.
- tptacek 5y agoBecause Mexico is in North America, despite what Colin said? Seems worth clarifying. After a tour de force comment like the one at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639407 I'm inclined to want more writing from this person, not less.
- jhgb 5y agoMost people in the world don't seem to have any problem with distinguishing North-America-the-Continent from North-America-the-Region depending on context. For example in my native tongue there's not even a way of phrasing them differently. Yet humans can somehow disambiguate the two just fine.