114 people die every minute, it's the regrettable but totally expected result of being alive in the first place. 114 "tragedies" every minute makes the word entirely meaningless. I mean, ok, every second there are 1.90 tragedies occurring. Every second of every day is tragedy, life is tragedy, existence is tragedy. Whatever, Baudelaire. Go smoke a clove and write a bad poem in the rain.
This explains so much!
What is a "natural life", So-crates?
Sure, and what is a fire hydrant to me may be a unicorn to someone else. Words mean stuff or we're all just basically barking.
I’d say that’s a tragedy.
Nope. It's just a crap thing that happened. Sad is enough. "Tragedy" isn't like BETTER (or worse) than "Sad", it's just different. This isn't a contest. A Tragedy is something which is awful and sad AND speaks to the human condition, the mistakes we make, our inability to see reason, our insistence upon hubris, etc. People getting dead doing normal stuff is the other thing. You know, sad.
So why doesn’t that apply to the plane crash? “Mistakes we make” , check
“Inability to see reason” , could be likely
“Insistence on Hubris” , again could be.
At least they didn't spell it as "tradegy", that would've been truly sad.Bluntly, because getting unlucky or being stupid doesn't speak to the Human Condition. I can't fathom why I'm in the position of "explaining" this to anyone. You're all well aware that there's a difference between getting hit by the golden bee-bee because bad stuff happens to good people, too, and something worthy of writing a play about. At this point you're just arguing for argument's sake, ain't nobody got time for that.
Bluntly, because getting unlucky or being stupid doesn't speak to the Human Condition. I can't fathom why I'm in the position of "explaining" this to anyone. You're all well aware that there's a difference between getting hit by the golden bee-bee because bad stuff happens to good people, too, and something worthy of writing a play about. At this point you're just arguing for argument's sake, ain't nobody got time for that.
Technically Todd uses the opposite argument for word definitions. For instance he recently argued that the use of "woke" the way it is commonly used by right-wingers, as a snarl word for social justice movements, is legitimate regardless of the original definition.
It would be a very big deal indeed.It may not be a tragedy to us randos on the internet; but to the family of these two individuals.....
My heart breaks for the family of the deceased.
Your probably correctI clicked on this, thinking I'd read about the Lift crash.
But it's 4 pages of arguing grammar.
Clearly I need to check in here more than once every few months....
Y'allre probably correct
Well then you run with that. And be sure to wear a helmet to protect your head from falling acorns.Ok, not those dying naturally of old age.
But a 28 yr old young woman and a 22 yr old young man, both of whom had a whole life ahead of them but died in a plane crash? I’d say that’s a tragedy.
*twitch*Your probably correct
Lose=not win, loose=you’re mom