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It is interesting that you say that. In English, we do use phrases like "X was destroyed by Z" ( I forget the exact idiom, but kids seem to be using it -- god I
by A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
It is interesting that you say that. In English, we do use phrases like "X was destroyed by Z" ( I forget the exact idiom, but kids seem to be using it -- god I feel old ), where no actual destruction beyond verbal attack took place.
I know you were referring to something else, but it got me thinking that we are already using the phrase. Our legal system just does not allow a lot of 'word damage' to be adjudicated.
- mc32 6y agoThere was also “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can’t hurt me” that now seems in practice to have gone by the wayside.
- TeaDrunk 6y agoI'm not gonna lie when I was a child decades ago it was well known even amongst childrens books at the time that that line's a load of horse shit. There's tons of books where that exact phrase is used to show that ignoring verbal abuse is wrong and emotionally damaging.
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- boring_twenties 6y agoYou don't need any levels of indirection. https://old.reddit.com/r/murderedbywords https://old.reddit.com/r/murderedbywords *Note, the sub isn't interesting, I'm just demonstrating that the phrase is already in use.