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Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors

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76 points rntn | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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andy99 ◴[31 Aug 25 20:30 UTC] No.45086801[source]▶
> 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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1. simondotau ◴[31 Aug 25 20:37 UTC] No.45086838[source]▶
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.