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Slight OT, but I wish “on steroids” wasn’t used in serious publications to refer to improvements and overall positive evolutions. I know it’s colloquially accep
by makeitdouble 4y ago
Slight OT, but I wish “on steroids” wasn’t used in serious publications to refer to improvements and overall positive evolutions. I know it’s colloquially accepted, but we also wouldn’t express someone being very focused as “being on Adderall”, or a very creative idea as being “on shrooms” in a scientific publication.
- bseidensticker 4y agoIDK seems fine to me. > we also wouldn’t express someone being very focused as “being on Adderall”, or a very creative idea as being “on shrooms” in a scientific publication. We don't because nobody does, and many people might not know what you mean.
- makeitdouble 4y agoHmmm…but then, do you personally do steroids ? Or do you directly know people doing steroids ? It looks to me like most people’s knowledge of steroids come from pop culture/doping scandals and news report, and use in articles like this one.