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Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction by BoorishBears on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:57AM (#26205633)
You should learn the meaning of the word "facetious".

And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English.

Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one?

Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction by mkl on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:42PM (#26209650)
> You should learn the meaning of the word "facetious".

I know it well.

> And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English.

You apparently don't know the definition of "American". I have never seen a native speaker make a mistake like that.

> Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one?

I understand sarcasm just fine. Calling a Haitian road "American" is not sarcasm. Yes, English is my first and only language.

You said a picture was from the USA, and I doubted this, so I went and spent time chasing down the actual source. That's not facetiousness or sarcasm, that's either an innocent error, or misleading and antisocial. I interpreted it as innocent error, and attempted to politely correct your knowledge and explain, and now you reply with this argumentative comment, implying you deliberately attempted to mislead and waste our time. I won't reply further.

Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction by BoorishBears on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:02AM (#26210948)
You're just too dense to understand what was said, you shouldn't have replied in the first place.

Person implies somehow Africa, the continent, is somehow unsuitable for Google maps vehicles (despite the fact Google has mapped hundreds of tens of thousands of miles in multiple countries in the continent)

This comes from treating all of Africa like it's one giant country with the same infrastructure everywhere.

I facetiously (a word you do NOT understand apparently) show a picture of Haiti, a North American country and say, since their roads are terrible all North American roads are terrible, and refer to an entire continent as if it were a single country that includes the US.

From here your subpar English skills fail you, to the point I'm forced to use a word somewhat similar to facetious but not quite as accurate (sarcasm) because the proper word is above your understanding.

Sometimes being imprecise allows a person with a challenged vocabulary such as yourself to catch up, but of course the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force here, so you use it as an assertation that you're not the one failing to understand basic vocabulary.

It's a shame English is your only language and yet mastery of it escapes you.