A horrifying image shows the injuries of a hiker who walked 10 miles with a trekking pole through his body instead of paying for a helicopter evacuation.
I don’t think that’s the part of the sentence that’s the issue - I read it the same way as the previous poster, and realise what the problem is. You said:
But in every other civilized country they wouldn’t have to be able to self-assess something like that
On first read, it sounded like you’re saying “they wouldn’t have been able to self-assess something like that”, whereas you’re actually saying “they wouldn’t have needed to self-assess something like that”.
Please remember that this is an internet where seemingly half of the Americans we meet are 100% convinced that the US is the only place in the world with cars, electricity, running water, etc. The assertion that the US is the only country with nurses capable of self-assessing injuries totally seems like something that someone would post.
There is quite the distinction between “wouldn’t have to be able” (as in “it would not be necessary”) and “wouldn’t have been able” (as in “incapable of”) if you have any sense of grammar. I do make my fair amount of mistakes, as anyone does, and i am no grammar nazi at all, but i have to point out if someones ability to understand what i am saying seems to be lacking.
Like i said, functional analphabetism (which the US suffers the most of in comparison to other developed countries) isn’t my problem, it’s the problem of the people who were neglected by their educational system and probably their parents.
These people should be angry that no one thought it would be a positive thing if they could understand clearly what was said. But it’s not me who they should direct their snark and anger towards. They should burn down the houses of the (mainly republican) politicians who have been dismantling the US education system für the last 60 years and demand better. That’s not an action i can take for them to improve their situation. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Sorry, humor translates badly on the internet, same as sarcasm 🤷. And that i instantly thought that you weren’t able to understand me because of educational issues makes it even worse… because the probabilities were in my favor. I wish it weren’t so, but functional analphabetism is RAMPANT in the US, and that was before the Trump admin started demolishing everything that could be interpreted as intellectual.
I am personally happy for you that this situation is not something that hurts you directly, but in my (limited) experience it makes a lot of sense to provide people with enough information to be angry about the status quo, because the might never arrive at it if they were left on their own.
About 70% of adults in the U.S. prison system read at or below the fourth-grade level, according to the 2003 National Adult Literacy Survey, noting that a “link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure.”[9]
85% of US juvenile inmates are functionally illiterate.[8]
43% of adults at the lowest level of literacy lived below the poverty line, as opposed to 4% of those with the highest levels of literacy.[8]
I don’t think that’s the part of the sentence that’s the issue - I read it the same way as the previous poster, and realise what the problem is. You said:
On first read, it sounded like you’re saying “they wouldn’t have been able to self-assess something like that”, whereas you’re actually saying “they wouldn’t have needed to self-assess something like that”.
Please remember that this is an internet where seemingly half of the Americans we meet are 100% convinced that the US is the only place in the world with cars, electricity, running water, etc. The assertion that the US is the only country with nurses capable of self-assessing injuries totally seems like something that someone would post.
There is quite the distinction between “wouldn’t have to be able” (as in “it would not be necessary”) and “wouldn’t have been able” (as in “incapable of”) if you have any sense of grammar. I do make my fair amount of mistakes, as anyone does, and i am no grammar nazi at all, but i have to point out if someones ability to understand what i am saying seems to be lacking.
Like i said, functional analphabetism (which the US suffers the most of in comparison to other developed countries) isn’t my problem, it’s the problem of the people who were neglected by their educational system and probably their parents.
These people should be angry that no one thought it would be a positive thing if they could understand clearly what was said. But it’s not me who they should direct their snark and anger towards. They should burn down the houses of the (mainly republican) politicians who have been dismantling the US education system für the last 60 years and demand better. That’s not an action i can take for them to improve their situation. Don’t shoot the messenger.
wow calm your tits dude that was a joke. Maybe talk to your therapist about this
Sorry, humor translates badly on the internet, same as sarcasm 🤷. And that i instantly thought that you weren’t able to understand me because of educational issues makes it even worse… because the probabilities were in my favor. I wish it weren’t so, but functional analphabetism is RAMPANT in the US, and that was before the Trump admin started demolishing everything that could be interpreted as intellectual.
I am personally happy for you that this situation is not something that hurts you directly, but in my (limited) experience it makes a lot of sense to provide people with enough information to be angry about the status quo, because the might never arrive at it if they were left on their own.
love, I’m not american. English is not even my first language, and different from americans I can speak more than 1 language (5 in total).
Before you tell me to “go back to my country”, I also don’tt live in the US thank god
I am also not a native english speaker, which makes it even sadder :-(
My friend, nobody is blaming you - it’s a failing of the language. I was just explaining where the misunderstanding likely occurred.