https://www.businessinsider.com/royal-navy-candidates-can-apply-without-know-how-swim-2024

  • Egon
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    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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      Different activities have different contexts for what "being able to do it" means.

      If I said I can't drive, that means I have no license and probably think there's too high of a chance of something going wrong if I drove. That doesn't mean that idk how to steer, hit the gas, or brake.

      If I said I can't walk that means I'm paralyzed.

      Swimming is somewhere in between those two on the spectrum of "what does it mean when I say I can't".

      I'd say that I am currently a bad/weak swimmer because I had some independent practice recently, but there was definitely a time where I'd say I didn't know how to swim even though I had taken lessons at that point.

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