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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I assume they mean "just north of Antarctica". But really it could be any body of water on the planet it could fit in.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"Just north of Antarctica" is still not helpful at all though. Even a hemisphere would narrow it down more.

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just north of Antarctica in the southern hemisphere.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Listen here you little shit.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The peninsula is considered the north side. So the location of the shipwreck is south of South America.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

the peninsula is considered the north side

look at the peninsula

it's on the west side

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[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Weddell Sea is basically in Antarctica

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah even "near Antarctica" narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.

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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Narrowed it down to a single planet.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

narrowed it down to 95% of a single planet!

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[–] marius@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

What a shame. A wreck on another planet would have been way more interesting

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 24 points 1 week ago

If "north of Antarctica" isn't enough to narrow it down, here are a few tips: it's also south of the Arctic, further from the Sun than Venus, closer to the Sun than Mars. Now it's easy to find it!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

Mark here either has poor reading comprehension, or is intentionally being a little shit by cherry picking part of the title and not reading the whole thing.

The location specified is not 'north of Antarctica'.

It is, 'the Weddell Sea, north of Antarctica.'

Giving 'the Weddell Sea' as the location is actually decently specific, and the 'north of Antarctica' that follows is modifying / adding to the description of 'the Weddell Sea'... not the entirety of the location description.

I would snarkily, rhetorically, ask if people are even taught how to diagram out a sentence structure anymore, but I already know the answer is 'not really, no', because the average adult American literacy level is that of a 6th grader.

Mark, and anyone else who also finds this to be a funny, poignant zinger, need to go back to middle school and relearn grammar.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Weddell sea is good, mentioning Antarctica is good, the word “North” is meaningless in this context which is what the OP is laughing about.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

It should probably say, "off the Antarctic coast", or even "X kilometers off the Antarctic coast".

[–] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Or - bear with me here - it’s just a funny detail and people are laughing about it. Because any sea is obviously going to be north of it

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is still valid to point out that "north of Antartica" is a silly phrase in context, even though it's fine given the more specific Weddell Sea information. If you did want to help readers know the story based on a more well-known landmark, a less silly phrase would have been simply been "Weddell Sea, near Antarctica".

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[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While you're not wrong, you're also massively over-analyzing and "WELL AKSHULLY"ing what appears to be a silly one-liner, not a serious attempted dunk on the article.

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Nope. You could as well say: Mediterranean Sea, north of Antarctica.

I have two dollars, less than infinity.

The temperature is pleasant, higher than absolute zero.

Doesn't add anything. There are no seas south of Antarctica.

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[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

show me which part of Weddell Sea isn’t North of Antarctica

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[–] p3n@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

The Weddell Sea, north of Antarctica, brought to you by the department of redundancy department.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I would snarkily, rhetorically, ask if people are even taught how to diagram out a sentence structure anymore, but I already know the answer is ‘not really, no’, because the average adult American literacy level is that of a 6th grader.

I agree with your overall statement. Just wanted to point out that there are a lot more people than Americans out there.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You better believe I'm here for this squabbling

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup, by naming Wedell, they located it quite well; there are 13 small named seas completely encircling Antarctica. By naming any of them, you can reasonably locate (to any point that matters to dear reader) the wreck

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, if you happen to already know where the Wedell Sea is or if you look it up it you can reasonably locate it, in which case adding the "north of Antarctica" part is superfluous. But if you don't already know where the Wedell Sea is, adding in the "north of Antarctica" part doesn't actually narrow it down any, which is why it's a funny thing to point out.

If they had wrote "just north of Antarctica" or "off the coast of Antarctica" or "near Antarctica", that would have narrowed it down significantly.

Now that I have thoroughly explained the joke, I imagine it's much funnier now.

I'm sure that "Mark "Three-Jabs" Newton" and the rest of us who found this funny were able to deduce from the context that is actually what the writer meant . That isn't what they actually wrote though so "sp3ctr4l" is not only incorrect in asserting that Mark has "poor reading comprehension", he is also wrong that 'reading the whole thing' would have clarified things and was extremely condescending about his incorrect statement at the same time, which makes him kind of an ass imo.

He was correct that Mark was "intentionally being a little shit" so 1 out of 3 wouldn't have been so bad if he weren't such a douche about it at the same time.

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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, you're just insufferable.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, spectral IS wrong. The "complaint" isn't arguing grammar, it's explicitly pointing out that there's a very unhelpful couple of words in the sentence.

The sentence "I live north of Antarctica." gives you basically zero information but is perfectly grammatically correct.

The line may as well have been "The weddel sea, which is made of water,..."

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[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't talk about what's South of Antarctica

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You mean beyond the ice wall that marks the edge of the disc? We're not allowed to know /s

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here I’ll help, it’s also south of the North Pole.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Baby don’t hurt me.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can construct a weird true statement from this: All continents besides Antarctica are located North of the South-Pole.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically, almost all of Antarctica is located north of the south pole

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[–] borax7385@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eventually, yes! To find out how, read his book. It's honestly one of the best books I've ever read.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I can specify: south of the arctic.

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