• deltapi@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
    Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?

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      6 hours ago

      What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?

      Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.

      If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.