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what is north? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Are kids today so Vine-brained they don't understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We all probably understood that's what they meant but it's funny and not super clear. "The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica." or "The Weddell Sea near Antarctica." work much better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"off the coast of" is the phrasing I would have used. I've honestly never heard of the Weddell sea until just now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, you're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Headline syntax sucks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you leave Antarctica, you're heading north. Is it North of Antarctica toward Australia, South Africa, Patagonia or some other northerly direction from Antarctica?

That's the ambiguity inherent to the headline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

East of the Antarctic peninsula.

Anyplace off the coast of Antarctica is, by definition, north of it. But the Weddell Sea is a specific area of the Southern Ocean.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Don't be too hard on them, they're new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'll have to use that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

TBF it's also south of the Arctic Ocean.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Of course they aren’t going to give the exact location. That wreck would be ransacked for scrap metal if it isn’t resting too deep. Like in Indonesia several WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

Anyway this turns only absurd if it referred to the exact pole, geographic or magnetic, but not from the continent as is.

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