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    1 day ago

    In some English dialects, we have a middle distance indicator for those sort of… ambiguous distances.

    We have:

    This here

    That there

    And we have “just over there”.

    If someone said the third option, you’d know it wasn’t far by the use of “just”, but also not close enough to count as here, even if it’s not technically formal language.

    Some dialects also have an additional category to indicate things so far you can’t see them, like “over yonder”