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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries

Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it's the farthest East county possible.

I think the words you were looking for were "first world countries".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Nobody takes that to be literally about geography anymore. Japan might be far away from Texas, but it's politically a lot closer than Russia just a ferry ride away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it's the farthest East county possible.

No love for New Zealand huh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

New Zealand? What's that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Checked my map, it's not there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's an updated version of a Dutch province

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

its so east that it loops back around to being west

[–] apostrofail -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NikkiDimes 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] apostrofail 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

[Pedentry intensitfies]

Appropriate user name, though.

[–] NikkiDimes 1 points 21 hours ago

Syntax would be more like sentence structure and order. Contractions are indeed grammar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Depends on your meridian.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Po-tay-to po-tah-to doesn't really matter to distinguish between them when what I meant was clear, although I probably would've said first world if I was nitpicking my post before sending