Oleo@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL that people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by trafficcdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down113
arrow-up1262arrow-down1videoTIL that people in Los Angeles live completely surrounded by trafficcdn.imgchest.comOleo@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square40linkfedilink
minus-squarenewtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down16·2 months 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-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down7·2 months ago🙄 You’re so eager to umackshually that you didn’t realize they said people, not ALL people.
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-22 months 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.
minus-squareGrail@multiverse.soulism.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down5·2 months agoSo just because some people aren’t surrounded by traffic, nobody is?
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoNo, it’s the wording of the title. Without additional context it could be read as referring to all people in Los Angeles
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.
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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.
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