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Its an article about books about war. Have you read any good books from 6,000 years ago lately?
by jeremyjh 14y ago
Its an article about books about war.
Have you read any good books from 6,000 years ago lately?
- will_work4tears 14y agoExcept he doesn't say "we've been recording fighting for 5,000 years," he says "we've been fighting for 5,000 years." There's no ambiguity there, unless you're delusional.
- LanceH 14y agoFighting wars? or just fighting? His context was about fighting wars, not just a couple guys running into each other and throwing a few punches.
- PakG1 14y agoToday I learned: even allegedly smart posters on HN can be unable to understand context.
- omegant 14y agoThat´s why sometimes silence is the only viable option, any other one only receives mental onanism as a response, the conversations ends in the same place but with the OP mentally exhausted.
- ctdonath 14y agoThere is an odd phenomenon prevalent on the 'net: the presumption that a short blurb written with a small audience and particular point in mind should, somehow, contain encyclopedic completeness to every conceivable objection any twit may conjure up, no matter how ill-informed or tenuously applicable.
- kbenson 14y agoThere's always ambiguity there, unless you're so delusional as to think you knew exactly what they were thinking and meant, and the exact context.