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HN doesn't filter "suicide" though. This is organic language. Free-range, grass-fed, and GMO-free.
by itishappy 2y ago
HN doesn't filter "suicide" though. This is organic language. Free-range, grass-fed, and GMO-free.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoYeah, my argument is we shouldn't use "unalive" when we don't have to.
- adolph 2y agoyou just did tho (I am currently reading and infected by Hofstadter's "Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking" which I think would side with using unalive, which might also construe a set larger than that of "dead.")
- JoshTriplett 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoI quoted it for specificity. I suppose I could have said "the word formerly known as suicide" but that is probably a phrasing that anyone young enough to unironically use the word formerly known as suicide wouldn't understand.
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