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minus-squarecheesybuddha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·24 hours agoThat’s not a correction, that’s an added detail.
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 hours agoIt specifies the cultural application but broadens the temporal. (To be more direct: not every first nation practiced that technique.)
minus-squarecheesybuddha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoAnd thus is not a correction. It’s an added detail at best, or at least a change of topic. It’s not a corretion
minus-squareJtotheb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·54 minutes agoChanging the past tense to present tense (these people and practices are still very real, they are not just part of “the past”) is a correction.
minus-squaredustycups@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·22 hours agoNow that’s a correction.
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·19 hours agoAs Mitch Hedberg would say They used to use it they still do. But they used to, too!
minus-squarecheesybuddha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-221 hours 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-down2·21 hours 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.
It specifies the cultural application but broadens the temporal.
(To be more direct: not every first nation practiced that technique.)
And thus is not a correction. It’s an added detail at best, or at least a change of topic. It’s not a corretion
Changing the past tense to present tense (these people and practices are still very real, they are not just part of “the past”) is a correction.
Now that’s a correction.
“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