• Revan343
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    8 months ago

    He presumably meant contiguous, but definitely didn’t know the word

    • tobis@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      He did not, I asked specifically. I even said “Alaska is the 49th of the 50 states.” and he chuckled and said I was confused. Thankfully that wasn’t the standard, but I did meet a few more similarly confounded people over the years.

      Also the number of people that think Alaska is small because of how it’s shown on many maps is staggering.