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>It's like (today or 18th century, does not matter) some African dude showing up in the middle of a busy European city center yelling "I discovered Europe!"

Imagine you self-fund your own voyage to Mars. You descend into a cave and find a city full of humanoid Martians. Do you think it would be inappropriate for you to exclaim, "I discovered Submartia!"?

Go medieval enough, and South Africa is about as remote as Mars.

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Your comment does not seem to have any connection to what I wrote. Please, read it again. It's kind of inane really. Why do you even bother to reply if you don't even care what I wrote? May I suggest not stopping after the second sentence already?

Maybe you can explain what you meant a little bit better, because I thought the exact same thing as the reply when I read your comment.

Maybe you could be bothered to read what I wrote, or maybe you need some additional English lessons? Your lack of either education or willingness to contribute constructively it out of my hands.

Hint: Don't stop after the second sentence.

I know I know, reading is hard in the Twitter age. Sorry for writing more than two sentences.

Maybe you can stop being an incomprehensible dick.

The comment you are angry at is directly related to yours and provides a valid counter example.

It doesn't help that your third sentence starts with "I've completely botched this attempt at communication, so I'm going to go completely off topic for the rest of this comment" which somehow translates into "why can't people understand what I wrote?"

You've come across a great way to start a conversation with 'dang though. The mods here really don't like comments like this, trust me. I've been on your side often enough. I would tone it down.

As I already said, if you have trouble with reading I cannot help you. This is something you have to manage on your own. If a few sentences really are such a problem for you, I think you can ask around, adult reading lessons should be available.

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