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Generally, your metaphors should not rely on comparison to a pretty traumatic event that has happened to quite a few people, many of whom might be around you wi
by MiroF 6y ago
Generally, your metaphors should not rely on comparison to a pretty traumatic event that has happened to quite a few people, many of whom might be around you without you knowing.
- lehi 6y agoI know anorexics for whom any mention of food can be a trigger. Should metaphors involving consumption be verboten in public discourse because they might be read by someone with an eating disorder?
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoSure. I guess then you shouldn’t even use the word “dead”, as plenty of people have lost close relatives which is a pretty traumatic event.
- MiroF 6y agoJust letting you know the reality that a lot of people view "stillborn" events as particularly traumatic. I'm not going to spend a lot of time arguing about this because it's a pretty simple point. It's up to you to choose what kind of person you want to be, I don't have control over what you say.
- deadmutex 6y agoI think the difference is that the term "Dead" is used in a lot of different contexts. E.g. Battery is dead. Stillborn is not, and it mainly associated used in one very traumatic context.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoHow about “miscarriage of justice”? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage_of_justice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage_of_justice
- unishark 6y agoDOA is a metaphor too, literally referring to people arriving at the ER too late.