Comment on it's true

cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “was” vs. “is”

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As Mitch Hedberg would say

    They used to use it

    they still do.

    But they used to, too!

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  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, so it wasn’t even an added detail. It was changing the topic to present day instead of the past.

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  • Legianus@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being pedantic it is added detail. As native Americans did it, even if they still do it, they could have originally/historically not done so.

    And also are there tribes/larger groups of native americans that did stop doing it? Then that statement is even stronger

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It specifies the cultural application but broadens the temporal.

  (To be more direct: not every first nation practiced that technique.)

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  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And thus is not a correction. It’s an added detail at best, or at least a change of topic. It’s not a corretion

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    • Jtotheb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Changing the past tense to present tense (these people and practices are still very real, they are not just part of “the past”) is a correction.

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      • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it is not.

        One person is talking about the past. The other person is talking about the present

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