[HN Gopher] A Guide to Your 1816 Stagecoach Journey
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A Guide to Your 1816 Stagecoach Journey
Author : breathenew
Score : 30 points
Date : 2021-11-10 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| irrational wrote:
| Very interesting. But, they meant "genteel" class and not
| "gentile" class, right?
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| Edit: I'm finding so many grammatical errors in this piece
| ("Coaches now were now better sprung") that spelling errors are
| hardly surprising.
| LiquidSky wrote:
| >Very, very few of the unaccompanied females will be of the
| gentile class.
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| Clearly you should expect unaccompanied females on an 1816
| stagecoach journey to be Jewish.
| mikestew wrote:
| Yeah, I had a clever rejoinder having something to do with
| Jewish immigration rates in 1816...and then I read the rest of
| the article and realized that it was probably one of the less
| egregious errors in TFA.
|
| It's an interesting article, no doubt, but be prepared to
| reread a few sentences. It's almost as annoying as the large
| amount of dns-prefetch going on to make sure those trackers
| have their names resolved upfront. :-)
| zwieback wrote:
| _you yourself may have had a purl - a warming mixture of beer,
| gin, nutmeg and sugar before the journey_
|
| trying to imagine how that tastes
| Naac wrote:
| Potentially interesting, but it was hard to read. The author
| needs to do a thorough proofread of this post, and potentially
| some editing.
| eigengrau5150 wrote:
| They should get some stats on the probability of dying of
| dysentery before reaching one's destination, too.
| iso1210 wrote:
| And finish it - the journey so far seems to be from the yard to
| the road!
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