opportunistic stupidity
longtime LRC poser ass ryan mcmaken today implies that there's significance in "the grammar used when referring to the UAE at the wikipedia site" — specifically the plural part of the phrase "the UAE were known as".textbook LRC fuckup:
- plural for a singular org is classic british; the author is unexamined by poser douchebag ryan mcmaken.
- nobody with a brain and relevant experience assigns moment to a wikipedia article, let alone the arbitrary preservation of the plural form chosen by a — wait for it — single, essentially anonymous author of a few-word snippet. oh, what weighty significance, the potentially no-meaning-intended typing by this lone dude.
beginning of the wikipedia article's opening paragraph:
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) [...] is a Middle Eastern federation of seven states [...]
Labels: derailleur, government dumb, wikipedia
posted by saltypig @ 16:45
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