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What is the purpose of using a word that means something different than what is currently being discussed? Why not say that children are suffering from malnutri
by alphan0n 1y ago
What is the purpose of using a word that means something different than what is currently being discussed? Why not say that children are suffering from malnutrition or food insecurity, rather than using a term used to describe a cause of death?
You wouldn't say that someone who choked on a glass of water to have drowned, or someone who received a momentary shock from frayed cord to have been electrocuted.
Words have meaning, it's not pedantic to comment on the usage of a word that has a different meaning entirely from manner in which it is being used, in what I suspect is an attempt at an appeal to emotion.
- camdenreslink 1y agoI think most (all?) people would understand "starve" to mean to suffer from hunger, rather than to literally die from hunger. Especially from the context.
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- alphan0n 1y agoOne would think that the actual dictionary definition of a word, rather than hyperbole, would be the most widely (all?) accepted and understood meaning of a word. Being defined, in a dictionary, and all. What is the outcome of a flame starved of oxygen? A plant starved of light? A person starved of food?