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Yep. "Many Americans are killed by lightning every year!" Technically true, but obviously sensational.
by throwaway894345 4y ago
Yep. "Many Americans are killed by lightning every year!" Technically true, but obviously sensational.
- JohnFen 4y agoWhat's sensationalistic about that? It seems accurate and not loaded to me. "Many" just means "more than a few" and implies "less than a majority".
- jefftk 4y agoI wouldn't consider 28 "many" in a context where it's less than one in a million. (https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infographic.html https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infograph...)
- Godel_unicode 4y agoThat is the point that gp is making. Many has no definition and many (see what I did there?) disagree about where it’s appropriate.
- jefftk 4y agoI don't think it's even technically true in the lightning case
- Godel_unicode 4y agoWe’ve achieved recursion. Edit: how can something be “technically” true if the word has no definition?