For example this sentence: "Usually, when glaciers come into contact they merge and continue flowing together. They have also been recorded stealing ice from one another" just left me more confused than before. What does it mean for glaciers to "steal ice" from one another? I understand "merge" but not "steal" in this context.
Theft! Stealing! More emotionally laden terms.
Anthropomorphization isn't exactly an uncommon writing tool.
Or, actually he understands just fine but chose to say he doesn't understand as a way to protest something he disagrees with. There's a chance you understood that and just wanted to try and be snarky though, isn't there? Such a valuable contribution!
I do not disagree with something I have no idea about.
If you truly didn't understand, you wouldn't have been able to suggest your preferred language use of 'merge' instead.
To maybe try and explain, as I said earlier anthropomorphization is a pretty common writing tool, which means to treat a non-person being or object as though it were a person in limited contexts. In this case the glacier is being anthropomorphized to help describe its behavior, otherwise, sure, the use of steal wouldn't really make sense.
Does that help you understand it at all?
But this is the Internet. A modern marvel built for the purpose of inflating one’s ego at the cost of others. Me included, of course.
Now, do me. Please.
That's not at all what's happening. I just made an observation because I truly doubted how someone couldn't understand, especially when their text indicated they did.
What's weird is when people like you involve themselves for no reason at all though.
> Now, do me. Please.
How about you do us both a favor and just never reply to me again? You don't have that in you though, you're one of those need to have the last word types, so have it, so at least I can then be done with you :)
Fantastic bait though. Well done :)
They made it so much better with a witty reply. I was just thinking this is one of my favorite HN threads I've seen in a long time. And now you've ended it with the HN trope of "I have no sense of humor but I still need to point out why I'm better than you."
Different strokes for different folks.
Indeed. Personally I thought the unwelcome interjection was asinine and combative with less than pure motivations, but glad you were able to enjoy it.
This is clickbait.
Before I read the article I was thinking maybe some researchers were stealing ice from each other and was really excited to understand why.