• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    You are judging a field specialist(s) on basically their communication skills.

    “Carly Cassella is a Senior Journalist at ScienceAlert”

    Or am I?

    Also, it’s not my fault that people got all flustered about me simply pointing out that poor phrasing with “do they even proofread?”

    Edit: goat -> got

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      14 days ago

      Oh, a journalist, then removed on :D (no /s, after all, random removed is a fair part of lemmy).

      But I think people replied to your og message because of the (mis?)use of the word “contradictory”, not because of the removed as such.
      (And Im mostly here bcs I like to understand myself, like what triggered you sceptically & how the same thing played in my mind)

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        14 days ago

        because of the ~~(mis?)~~use of the word “contradictory”,

        I used that only in my second comment, after the first person got flustered :) Go up two more in the comment chain and you’ll see my original comment. Although, I stand by the second comment as well - the article is contradicting itself.

        If I say

        The square root of -1 is i […] The square root of -1 is not defined. […]

        Only to THEN go on to explain what imaginary numbers are, then I have still contradicted myself :)