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Tue, Sep 29 2020, 8:26 pm
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amother
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Tue, Sep 29 2020, 10:11 pm
Sorry but when there is a wave in the ocean, the water doesn’t disappear, it just recedes.
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Einikel
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Tue, Sep 29 2020, 10:32 pm
Yes! It’s a pet peeve of mine!
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amother
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Tue, Sep 29 2020, 10:40 pm
Can we stop policing the use of language? It's all arbitrary anyway. There is no inherently correct usage.
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imorethanamother
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Wed, Sep 30 2020, 12:11 am
amother [ Silver ] wrote: | Can we stop policing the use of language? It's all arbitrary anyway. There is no inherently correct usage. |
It is if you're a professional. Unless you like your doctor telling you that your thingie has a boo boo.
People use the word "wave" to indicate that somehow Covid went away and now it's back and more dangerous than ever. It's not. It never went away. It won't go away if we stay inside and wait for it to pass. It will still be there, which is why lockdown isn't a measure to make it disappear, it's a measure to slow it.
The word wave is a weapon to scare people into compliance in a specific form.
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seeker
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Wed, Sep 30 2020, 12:15 am
I thought wave referred to the way it looks on a graph: Curve up...curve down...curve up... curve down... if the pattern indeed continues this way then it would look like a wave.
So if technically a wave means something else, consider it a term used to communicate with the unlettered masses who are following the line graphs in the news.
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amother
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Wed, Sep 30 2020, 12:19 am
imorethanamother wrote: | It is if you're a professional. Unless you like your doctor telling you that your thingie has a boo boo. |
A doctor saying a thingie has a boo boo is not specific enough and doesn't give me any useful information. The issue isn't that it's not correct. "A part of your body has an issue" would be correct, but it would still be vague and unhelpful.
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