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To: SunkenCiv

I’m a nit picker on precise language:

The title: “............Oldest Sunken City in the world....”

Should be “Archeologists Find the Oldest Yet Discovered Sunken City in the World”:

the key words being “yet discovered” so as to not preclude archeologists likely, in time, finding other, as old or older, as yet undiscovered sunken cities.

It’s the oldest discovered, so far, which, in time may or may not make it the oldest sunken city.

They “find the oldest yet discovered”, they cannot say they “discovered the oldest”.


28 posted on 06/01/2026 10:18:06 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Thanks, but take a number. That’s an old favorite, not just in this topic, directed at someone who didn’t write the headline in the first place.


29 posted on 06/01/2026 10:21:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth. -- Democritus)
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