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Depopulated sounds like nobody is living there, something like Pripyat. This town is said to have lost over 50% of its former 53,000 so still over 25,000 left.
by usr1106 1y ago
Depopulated sounds like nobody is living there, something like Pripyat. This town is said to have lost over 50% of its former 53,000 so still over 25,000 left. And apartments in GDR were rather small.
Not a native speaker, but is depopulated really the right word here or just clickbait? At least I was expecting something else. Heavily shrunk of course.
- DaSHacka 1y agoI guess the difference between "unpopulated" and "depopulated" is the former means no one at all, while the latter just means the population had a (meaningfully significant) decrease.
- dotancohen 1y agoDoes decaffeinated coffee have zero caffeine? Do deboned fish have zero bones? Does debugged software have zero bugs?
- usr1106 1y agoNot zero, but an only insignificant residual because zero is hard to achieve in real life. Also Pripyat has some illegal inhabitants. (I don't think debugged software is a commonly used term, so no need to discuss the meaning) Edit: Genuine question: Would native speakers call Detroit depopulated? The shrinkage seems to be about the same ratio.
- weregiraffe 1y agoDoes detroit contain zero troits?
- dotancohen 1y agoI don't speak French, but I think that Detroit contains one big troit (strait), hence the city's name. But that's certainly less troits than bones in a deboned fish!
- relaxing 1y agoDoes desaturated mean a color with zero saturation?
- kortilla 1y agoIf decaffeinated coffee had half the caffeine of regular coffee it would most certainly not be called that. Same with deboned fish. The expectation using those terms is that only a negligible amount remains if any at all.
- popalchemist 1y agoYou're thinking of "unpopulated." "Depopulated" means the population has DEcreased.
- usr1106 1y agoUnpopulated is static, no change implied. Depopulated implies change, people used to live there. For me it meant no significant number left.
- willvarfar 1y agoDoes 25000 people leaving a city not count as depopulation then?
- kortilla 1y agoNo, people wouldn’t call Detroit depopulated
- popalchemist 1y ago> Depopulated implies change yes, as I said, it means a decrease, but the question of to what degree is unspecified. The assumption that it means to a near-zero degree is erroneous.
- aprilthird2021 1y ago> is depopulated really the right word here or just clickbait? I would consider depopulated to be correct
- benterix 1y ago> Not a native speaker, but is depopulated really the right word here Straight from the dictionary: depopulate (v): to substantially reduce the population of (an area)