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English is not my first language, so I always assumed blood and bleeding refer to any red liquid. I mean, we talk about blood oranges [0] and bleeding trees [1]
by smnrchrds 8y ago
English is not my first language, so I always assumed blood and bleeding refer to any red liquid. I mean, we talk about blood oranges [0] and bleeding trees [1] and no one assumes there is any real blood involved.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca
- spuz 8y agoThat's true, but when you are talking about meat, it's usually safe to assume 'bleed' means to 'bleed blood'.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- drb91 8y agoWhen people refer to a “bloody steak”, they aren’t implying the red liquid is actually blood.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoI would guess that most people are, just as most people who refer to menstrual blood intend to imply that it is actually blood. Is menstrual blood actually blood? That's not a question with a definitive answer; it is obviously different from the normal kind of blood you'd find in blood vessels, but it's also fundamentally similar. "Blood" is not an elemental or even homogeneous substance, so it can be hard to say that something isn't blood. But most people who refer to something as "blood" have never given it a minute's thought. If you cut meat and get a thick red liquid, of course that's blood. Where else would blood come from?
- narag 8y agoI've lost count of how much people I've met that actually thinks it's blood. In my experience, it's the default assumption.
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- bobwaycott 8y agoI’ve long encountered most people believing it is actual blood.
- lhorie 8y agoIs it? Maybe I'm odd in this regard, but knowing that blood coagulates and having seen how blood sausages look like, I implicitly understand that "meat bleeding" is not actual blood.