Sure...Euripides wrote the original "Medea", but we can thank Tyler Perry for the numerous remakes making it a true modern classic. Especially Medea Goes to Jail. What a wonderful adaptation of the Greek original
I think the issue is when someone issues a "correction" that is not indeed correct, often with a snarky remark attached.
Having the humility to look something up, even when you think you know, is an important way to better oneself. Also, no one called anyone an idiot. That is not something which is tolerated on our site.
I think that may well be a culture difference then. I, as a Brit, wouldn't be offended if someone tried to correct me, even if the correction is wrong. I'd just return with the fact and be in the knowledge they've learnt something new. I'd also took the first part of the sentence to be an "excuse me", rather than to condescend. But we all know humour, sarcasm and tone is difficult to read in text form. I was more aiming at the comment of the person who got over excited that someone was wrong. Spend hours of every day on JetPunk but hardly ever enter the comments section through fear of being tripped up through replies like so.
The Euro is the new 'single currency' of the European Monetary Union, adopted on January 1, 1999 by 11 Member States. Greece became the 12th Member state to adopt the Euro on January 1, 2001. On January 1, 2002, these 12 countries officially introduced the Euro banknotes and coins as legal tender.
In Denmark (and also other Scandinavian countries, I think) we call them 'Erik den røde' (Erik the red) and 'Leif den lykkelige' (Leif the happy). I would never call him by his last name, and it gets a little confusing when his father, Erik (who starts with an 'e'), also was an explorer who discovered Greenland.
Someone always feels the need to say this. The simple fact is that nobody really invents anything by themselves. If we have to choose one person who is most responsible for making electric light a reality, it is Thomas Edison.
THANK YOU! - I bet even the naysayers don't know the names of the "two Canadian guys" to whom they refer. But everyone will associate the bulb with Edison. (duh)!
i thought it was joseph swan who invented the light bulb, and edison just improved on his idea? so it could be edited to say something like modern lightbulb? correct me if i am wrong
For those who want the names of the actual inventors, they were Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans. They filed a patent for the lightbulb they invented in 1874. Edison bought the patent from them, and then later developed his own lightbulb which he patented.
So Edison did in fact create something of his own, unlike what some people claim, but he also did not invent the first lightbulb as claimed by others.
Nobody would say that Edison was THE inventor of the lightbulb. Many people around the world contributed to its development. However the question does not say "the inventor of the lightbulb" but just "lightbulb inventor". Without question, Edison was AN inventor of the lightbulb whose surname happened to begin with the letter "E".
"Oldest human remains". Not really true in any case - most palaeoanthropologists will say that you see modern humans elsewhere before Ethiopia, e.g. Morocco. (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22336) and you could argue that "human" could mean any hominoid post-dating the split with chimps/bonobos, of which there are multiple candidates, many not in Ethiopia.
Abyssinia didn't span Ecuador's territory, did it? But both modern Ethiopia and Eritrea were part of Abyssinia. So your "satirical" point has missed its mark.
Why "Ethiopia" is more correct than "Eritrea" (or why it would be considered completely correct without mentioning Eritrea) is mired in the details of what came to be called what when, and how Eritrea came to be split from then-Ethiopia. It's not an irrelevant question.
Having the humility to look something up, even when you think you know, is an important way to better oneself. Also, no one called anyone an idiot. That is not something which is tolerated on our site.
The Euro is the new 'single currency' of the European Monetary Union, adopted on January 1, 1999 by 11 Member States. Greece became the 12th Member state to adopt the Euro on January 1, 2001. On January 1, 2002, these 12 countries officially introduced the Euro banknotes and coins as legal tender.
So Edison did in fact create something of his own, unlike what some people claim, but he also did not invent the first lightbulb as claimed by others.
But Etruria will now be accepted as a type-in.
Though Einstein didn't kill himself so you're technically not wrong.
Why "Ethiopia" is more correct than "Eritrea" (or why it would be considered completely correct without mentioning Eritrea) is mired in the details of what came to be called what when, and how Eritrea came to be split from then-Ethiopia. It's not an irrelevant question.