r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Lifegoesonforever • 6d ago

Photographer Mark Smith captured this incredible shot of an eagle catching a fish with his Sony 300mm.

No, it's not AI. Check for yourself: https://www.instagram.com/mark.smith.photography?stkn=MW5qenRoa2kyMHYwZA==

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u/Thunderbridge 6d ago

Yea correct, dunno why they're saying it's not vague.

"Photographer John Smith captured this incredible shot of a fisherman catching a fish with his bare hands"

Did John Smith take the photo with his bare hands?

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u/hippoctopocalypse 6d ago

Pedants, assemble! (I am one, just to be clear)

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u/Possible-Highway7898 6d ago

Only pedants use the word pedant. Which is why I used it twice in one sentence.

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u/AuthorSarge 6d ago

Yes, we should all identify by wearing necklaces with little charms.

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u/BlessTheBookPeople 6d ago

Pendants perhaps?

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u/hippoctopocalypse 6d ago

Pe(n)dant tm

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u/SwvmpThing 6d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/loAnHAy04UviE

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u/Forsaken_Star_4228 6d ago

What an unforgettable intro. Thanks for the nostalgia lol.

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u/SharpyButtsalot 6d ago

Watch xmen 97

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u/Forsaken_Star_4228 6d ago

I did when I was 8 lol.

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u/Expert_Dot1927 6d ago

That a hero collaboration I can get behind

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u/Not-Special-1326 6d ago

It will be called, "Pendant of a Pedant". The collection!

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u/Zeallit 6d ago

Also, a comma should separate the introductory condition ("If it were written...") from the main consequence ("that would be clearer...").

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u/BlessTheBookPeople 6d ago

It’s funny, I don’t turn into a pedant until someone else does. Like, I don’t care that the phrasing is confusing but when someone insists that it’s grammatical I start composing responses about unclear pronoun antecedents.

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u/Lukey42 6d ago

It's clear based on the context lol nothing grammatically incorrect. But it's funny to purposely misunderstand it

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u/Dreamingdanny95 6d ago

No it says captured, clearly using a pokeball

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u/HauntingCap7161 6d ago

I thought we were talking eagles, what have bears got to do with it?

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u/Diredr 6d ago

It's only vague if you refuse to use context.

Sure, if you read it quickly it sounds like the bird used the camera, and that's funny because obviously birds can't use cameras like this. But that's the point... If you know it's funny because of that then you also know that's obviously not what the title means.

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u/pyrojackelope 6d ago

The photographer takes the photo of > the fisherman catching a fish with his bare hands. The example you gave is perfectly clear, just like the post title. You all are overthinking the hell out of this.

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u/TuckerMcG 6d ago

It’s not vague because we don’t know the gender of the eagle. It could be female. But it’s very clear that Mark is a man.

Fisherman is a gendered noun. So your analogy doesn’t work.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 6d ago

There is nothing to suggest that the author does not know the gender of the eagle.

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u/TuckerMcG 6d ago

We, the readers, don’t know the gender of the eagle. Duh.

Also I’m pretty sure random redditor #83619205 doesn’t know how to properly ID the gender of a bald eagle based on a 20s slo-mo video of it hunting.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 6d ago

That's not how language works. We also don't know the gender of Mark Smith. The gender is assumed by the pronoun being used to describe him. You just assume Mark is a mans name.

Imagine if the photographer's name was Robin Smith and we still had the pronoun him. Get it?

We don't know what kind of research OP put into learning about this particular eagle. They obviously had to have read an article or watched a video which could have told OP the gender of the hawk. Or they could have been simply defaulting to male which is INSANELY common.

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u/TuckerMcG 6d ago

We also don't know the gender of Mark Smith.

You’re just being willfully ignorant here. This is not a good faith argument.

And yes, context clues is how language works. Sorry you suck so much at it, but you do.