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"This is language not math" is exactly my point, you're trying to paint this as me looking at a technicality or something, it's literally misconstruing someone'
by BoorishBears 5y ago
"This is language not math" is exactly my point, you're trying to paint this as me looking at a technicality or something, it's literally misconstruing someone's very simple words
They made a connection and it's not the connection you implied...
> It would never cross my mind to think of a country as xenophobic because they speak their own language.
This person never said Germany is xenophobic just because they speak their own language, it's insulting people's intelligence to pretend they did.
This isn't HN-style "haha got you on the mathematical sum of words" this is having the basic decency to reply to what was said, not what you're pretending was said. Maybe not everyone is capable of that.