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Not that it matters much, but under your interpretation, the better wording would be "ingesting". And interestingly, that word doesn't have the same problem as
by feanaro 4y ago
Not that it matters much, but under your interpretation, the better wording would be "ingesting". And interestingly, that word doesn't have the same problem as "consuming", which is that content peddlers devalue the reader by implying they are consuming their merchandise.
- inanutshellus 4y agoI like ingest! That said, I believe OP is offended at being referred to in an impersonal way. As such, I don't believe there's much to be done for him beyond "don't refer to people by their actions", which is impractical. "I ingested [The Sandlot]" or "We had 50,000 ingesters of [The Sandlot] this week!" are, to my mind, faaaaaairly equivalent to "I consumed [The Sandlot]" or "We had 50,000 consumers of [The Sandlot] this week!" Not terribly compelling but... "ingest" has a gut association whilst "consume" has a head connotation... so... there's that. However, there is a fun distinction between the two. "Consuming" a book, to me, just implies you read it. "Digesting" and "ingesting" have implications of /rumination/.