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minus-squarecheesybuddha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·5 days agoThat’s not a correction, that’s an added detail.
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoAs Mitch Hedberg would say They used to use it they still do. But they used to, too!
minus-squarecheesybuddha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-25 days agoOk, so it wasn’t even an added detail. It was changing the topic to present day instead of the past. That’s even further from a correction imo
minus-squareLegianus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·5 days agoBeing 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
That’s not a correction, that’s an added detail.
“was” vs. “is”
As Mitch Hedberg would say
They used to use it
they still do.
But they used to, too!
Ok, so it wasn’t even an added detail. It was changing the topic to present day instead of the past. That’s even further from a correction imo
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