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65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 April 2013 04:19:38PM 5 points [-]

Huh. Even I, who am usually very peeved by that kind of things, automatically took “everywhere” to mean ‘in the US’ in that context without even noticing. (Possibly because the first paragraph explicitly mentioned the US twice, and because of the “county” and “state” earlier in the same sentence.)

Comment author: Kawoomba 09 April 2013 04:35:14PM 7 points [-]

Everywhere is all-quantified concerning the location, so obviously it means on other planets and in other civilizations as well. Elementary, my dear Watson.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 April 2013 04:56:38PM 3 points [-]

(In certain posts, I do have trouble determining whether the writer is talking about the US, the Anglosphere, the western world, the developed world, the whole world, or what.)