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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/13/2021 7:40 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">nIqolay Q:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">What remote, desolate, big places do you have in mind?
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Because the word refers to a place, not an area. It refers to a place isolated in a desolate area,
which makes the place relatively small. If the place were large, it wouldn't be isolated in its desolation.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I'm confused by this distinction between "place" and "area"; so I'll
write an example.
You set out to visit the rocky mountains, but your gps malfunctions.
You end up driving hours in the wilderness, and after having driven on
some godforsaken dirt road, you exit your car, not having seen a
single sign of civilization for the past 300 miles. All you see, is
uncultivated, untouched by human hand, wilderness, as far as the eye
can see.
Don't you call that in english "remote, desolate place"?</pre>
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<p>I call your current position a remote, desolate place, but I
don't call the entire desolation that.</p>
<p>Suppose your house stands on the edge of a desert. Every day you
wake up and look out your southern windows and see only
desolation. You look out your northern windows and see your city.
The area of desolation to your south is not remote — it's right
there.</p>
<p>Now go out into the desert. You're far from anybody or any human
dwelling. You stand in one spot and consider that spot remote
(from others) and desolate. The whole desert isn't remote, just
particular spots in the desert. And compared to the entire desert,
that one spot is small. It's the same desert as when you were
looking at it from your house, but now you're isolated inside it.</p>
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