You absolutely can decide whether something someone else does is “normal” and do all the time. “I can’t believe how often people in Finland go to the sauna, man, it’s just not normal” is a perfectly acceptable statement nobody would have an issue with unless they were deliberately pretending to misunderstand it to be obnoxious and trolly on the Internet.
You can caveat it with their perspective all you want, that’s an aditional statement that has nothing to do with the original perfectly valid, perfectly understandable statement that you understood.
It’s normal for both Americans and Finns. But that’s kinda duh, you spoke about they who find it normal so of course they would be people who find it normal.
I mean, I know what you’re saying because… you know, but if we’re going to do this dick measuring thing you’re going to at least have to approximate language.
You absolutely can decide whether something someone else does is “normal” and do all the time. “I can’t believe how often people in Finland go to the sauna, man, it’s just not normal” is a perfectly acceptable statement nobody would have an issue with unless they were deliberately pretending to misunderstand it to be obnoxious and trolly on the Internet.
You can find it abnormal but it still is normal to Finns. It doesn’t change the actual reality. That’s just what it means.
You can caveat it with their perspective all you want, that’s an aditional statement that has nothing to do with the original perfectly valid, perfectly understandable statement that you understood.
You said “they” though.
Finns and Americans are both “they”. Everybody who isn’t you or me is they.
Keep it up, we’ll descend all the way down to pure formal logic this way. Breaking new frontiers of semiotics, I tell you.
It’s normal for both Americans and Finns. But that’s kinda duh, you spoke about they who find it normal so of course they would be people who find it normal.
That is not a sentence.
I mean, I know what you’re saying because… you know, but if we’re going to do this dick measuring thing you’re going to at least have to approximate language.
I’m sorry but what do you mean?
That’s my exact question, actually.