this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
104 points (96.4% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26890 readers
1909 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Can he? In general, can/do popes vote in their home countries?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you think the difference is?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

One has people who live “in the country”, whereas a city-state is a state in which all the people live in a city and nobody lives “in the country”.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In other words there’s no country music in a city state

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. This is either A+ trolling or just sad

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m serious. Just think about it. You already intuitively know what the difference is based on the way these words are used throughout our language.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before the states in the USA United… the were just states… separate ones… they had no rural land?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You could also have just looked at the defile the words