• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Oh I get it. I really didn’t get why The Great Lakes weren’t called Seas. I happened to have a globe in the hallway because my parents house has more bookshelves than walls.

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      2 months ago

      They really oughta be called seas, those fuckers are huuuuge. Childhood me woulda agreed with you. Maybe. We did live next to the Atlantic Ocean, but I think if the argument was “Can’t see the other side” me would have accepted this as what an ocean or sea should be.

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        2 months ago

        That was my argument back then. Someone eventually explained to me that lakes are freshwater and seas are saltwater, so that made that make sense.