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Kind of like how they go out of their way to refer to people operating cars as drivers instead of actual people? This kind of language is par for the course be
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
Kind of like how they go out of their way to refer to people operating cars as drivers instead of actual people?
This kind of language is par for the course because these articles basically use a less terse version of whatever language the study or official report uses and those kinds of documents tend to shy away from things like "people driving cars" and "people walking".
You are finding meaning where there is none.
- hello_friendos 7y agoNo, this is actually a real thing that happens when the news covers driver pedestrian interactions. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/03/28/how-coverage-of-pedestrian-fatalities-dehumanizes-victims-and-absolves-drivers/ https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/03/28/how-coverage-of-pedes...
- tom_ 7y agoYes. Thank you for this post - this was exactly the sort of thing my comment was referring to.
- Kalium 7y agoOne of the side-effects of using "human centered language" tends to be needless verbosity and resulting clumsy writing as the human being writing the piece of writing labors to appropriately center the human being or human beings being discussed.