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> Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images Is an 'inland lake' different to an 'offshore lake'?
by aniijbod 4y ago
> Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images
Is an 'inland lake' different to an 'offshore lake'?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Is an 'inland lake' different to an 'offshore lake'? I think it refers to an inland body of water with no access to the sea, sort of like a salt lake [1]. (I upvoted because it's an interesting question. But it would be better received if phrased plainly versus sarcastically.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake
- robertlagrant 4y ago> But it would be better received if phrased plainly versus sarcastically. The perils of thinking people receive things objectively. I didn't think it was sarcastic; it's phrased about as neutrally as I can imagine.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> it's phrased about as neutrally as I can imagine Try “what is an inland lake?” It’s the question, plainly. You aren’t levying a guess against a contrived hypothetical (“offshore lake” isn’t a thing, and could objectively be parsed as facetious).
- aniijbod 4y agoI agree with your claim that this was something that I posted as both facetious and sarcastic. I apologise. The word 'inland' in this context just seemed to be a wholly redundant adjective to use to describe a lake, such that it surprised me that the title of an article covering something of such genuinely extraordinary importance would have what seemed to be such a glaring error left unattended to, or at leased not commented upon. So I sought to attract attention to it in the most attention-catching way that I could come up with at that time, which was to be sarcastic about it.