Before we start sassing somebody for interpreting a sentence improperly, let's look at the ACTUAL full quote;

"Supreme Court member Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an honorary doctorate degree from every single Ivy League School, with the exception of Cornell, which doesn’t give them out."

It doesn't seem unreasonable to point out that an earned undergraduate degree is significantly different from an honorary doctorate degree, and that perhaps when somebody EXPLICITLY SPECIFIES the second type, they aren't talking about the first. That's not a syntax error, and it's plenty clear.

>It doesn't seem unreasonable to point out that an earned undergraduate degree is significantly different from an honorary doctorate degree, and that perhaps when somebody EXPLICITLY SPECIFIES the second type, they aren't talking about the first.

It's very unreasonable, and kind of rude to divert the discussion just to split hairs.

Not to mention that there wasn't even a syntactic or logical error in the original bloody statement. The full original quote plus parent comment was this:

>Supreme Court member Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an honorary degree from every single Ivy League School, with the exception of Cornell, which doesn’t give them out." ...except for her actual undergrad degree, which is from Cornell.

Clearly mentioning that her "undergrad degree" is an ACTUAL one, and not a "honorary".

Very clearly he adds to the information that "she has a honorary degree from every single Ivy League school except Conrell" that she also has "an actual udergrad degree, which is from Cornell".

It's CLEAR that his intention is to say that she has a degree, regardless of kind, from ALL Ivy League schools, and to also explain why she doesn't have one from Cornell (because Cornell doesn't need to give her a honorary one, they gave her their actual degree).

The parent misquotes the original article (or the article has been edited since the quotation without a note indicating as such). I quoted the actual article and pointed out that it specifies honorary doctorate.

I agree that the parent comment is trying to say that RBG has a degree from Cornell already, but that's not really relevant to the article and it doesn't seem unreasonable to point out exactly why her degree from Cornell wasn't mentioned. It's not a categorical list of every degree she has, and doesn't pretend to be.