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I think this is kind of like an air conditioning company saying, "If it can cool you off in the tropics, it can cool you off anywhere!" The facts are simple: t
by jcutrell 13y ago
I think this is kind of like an air conditioning company saying, "If it can cool you off in the tropics, it can cool you off anywhere!"
The facts are simple: there are significant parts of Africa that are very sparsely connected to what is commonly available in many (or most) other countries of the world.
I get how this can be somewhat offensive, but I also think the point comes across and isn't directed at the African people.
If it works in Africa, then, objectively, it works in sparsely populated and sparsely connected areas.
- derleth 13y ago> If it works in Africa, then, objectively, it works in sparsely populated and sparsely connected areas. If it works in a really nice hotel in Johannesburg, it's working in Africa. Your point is invalid.
- evan_ 13y agoIs that what they meant? Is that what most people will understand it to mean?
- jcutrell 13y agoMy point isn't invalid. Communication is messy, and this is an example of that. "I was in the middle of the ocean!" Did you think I was in water? You're wrong. I was on an island that is in the middle of an ocean. "I stayed in a hotel in New York." Did you think I rented a hotel room? No, I simply stood in the lobby. You can't say that because someone says something without constraining it with every detail, that the communicated point is incomplete. Communication is a loose protocol.