Talk:Closure of tidal inlets

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"However, some locations, like Maasdam, have less clear origins. Maasdam, a village situated at the site of a dam on the Maas dating back to before 1300, was the site of the construction of the Grote Hollandse Waard, which was subsequently lost during the devastating St. Elizabeth's Flood of 1421."

Ostensibly an article should be about clarity. Not only does the inclusion of this sentence not help, but it contradicts itself within itself. Even if the meaning of this was that it's not as visibly clear today as it would have been then, it doesn't help to clarify to word it like this. And it'd also pretty true of the two other examples given, too, in that cities have built up around these initial dammed locations to the point of where it's not imminently visible why these cities are named as they are. I just don't see any good reason - if you're going to included Maasdam as an example, at all - of singling it out for special mention. Perhaps this has to do with directly translating the Dutch article, which I'm not a fan off since languages have different concepts and grammar. Criticalthinker (talk) 08:02, 13 April 2024 (UTC)