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Consult the Grammopticon: Blaming the Victim
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Easy answers. Because I am always right. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. We have a word for "sad." That word is "sad." Why is it then that so many deaths or other saddening events in the news are deemed "tragic"? Is "sad" no longer sufficient to express the pain of loss before its time? Sad" serves the purpose just fine. On learning of the recent death of our cat, my vet left us a voicemail message in which he said, "I'm sad." Simple. Effective. It made us cry all over again.). Our language has plenty of wo...