Oleo@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoTIL that people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by trafficcdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down112cross-posted to: fuckcars@lemmy.world
arrow-up1244arrow-down1videoTIL that people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by trafficcdn.imgchest.comOleo@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: fuckcars@lemmy.world
minus-squarenewtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down13·2 days agoI mean, no. LA is huge and there are a ton of neighborhoods that don’t have massive interchanges surrounding them. This is a silly post.
minus-squareGrail@multiverse.soulism.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·2 days agoSo just because some people aren’t surrounded by traffic, nobody is?
minus-squaretrashcan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoNo, it’s the wording of the title. Without additional context it could be read as referring to all people in Los Angeles
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down7·2 days ago🙄 You’re so eager to umackshually that you didn’t realize they said people, not ALL people.
minus-squaretrashcan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoEnglish is vague like that Edit: I think we’re filling in a space and we each subconsciously pick one. Ex: TIL that [some] people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by traffic TIL that [all] people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by traffic TIL that [there are] people in Los Angeles [that] live completely surrounded by traffic TIL that [the] people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by traffic Etc.
I mean, no. LA is huge and there are a ton of neighborhoods that don’t have massive interchanges surrounding them. This is a silly post.
So just because some people aren’t surrounded by traffic, nobody is?
No, it’s the wording of the title. Without additional context it could be read as referring to all people in Los Angeles
🙄
You’re so eager to umackshually that you didn’t realize they said people, not ALL people.
English is vague like that
Edit: I think we’re filling in a space and we each subconsciously pick one.
Ex:
TIL that [some] people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by traffic
TIL that [all] people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by traffic
TIL that [there are] people in Los Angeles [that] live completely surrounded by traffic
TIL that [the] people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by traffic
Etc.