You can’t call them ‘inventors’ though, because that’s not as high-status as ‘poet’.
It isn’t? That’s… broken.
Yes, that was my attempted point.
(In that vein my attempted point in reply approximately translates to “I agree with your point that it would be broken if true, am startled to hear that it actually is true but take your word for it”.)
It isn’t?
That hasn’t been my experience, quite the opposite. Is this a cultural difference between Scandinavia and America, or am I missing something?
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You can’t call them ‘inventors’ though, because that’s not as high-status as ‘poet’.
It isn’t? That’s… broken.
Yes, that was my attempted point.
(In that vein my attempted point in reply approximately translates to “I agree with your point that it would be broken if true, am startled to hear that it actually is true but take your word for it”.)
It isn’t?
That hasn’t been my experience, quite the opposite. Is this a cultural difference between Scandinavia and America, or am I missing something?