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Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors
(theconversation.com)
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rntn
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31 Aug 25 19:48 UTC
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andy99
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31 Aug 25 20:30 UTC
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> Mount Everest – known as Sagarmatha in Nepali – to national parks in Norway and Aotearoa – known as New Zealand to English speakers
Very hard to read around this stuff
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simondotau
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31 Aug 25 20:37 UTC
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This is bad copy editing. Detail like this belongs in parentheses at minimum, preferably footnotes. They should at least be consistent about using common or traditional names first.
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ecshafer
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31 Aug 25 21:42 UTC
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Weird how they don't say "Norge - known as Norway to English Speakers".
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BobaFloutist
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01 Sep 25 16:47 UTC
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I mean "Norway" is pretty clearly an anglicisation of Norge, much as Sagarmatha is of सगरमाथा.
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