For what it’s worth, those examples for ‘accident’ are being used as euphemisms to soften the blow of the intended message, and you can’t soften the blow without using soft words.
Car accidents have noun-ified the word a bit, though, so I do see where you’re coming from.
Uh, my argument is that my eyes see no devils yonder. If you’d like to know why, I guess, have a look at 1-a.
I should have pulled up a dictionary to begin with, honestly. I just thought I was arguing from a more colloquial standpoint. Which I would still defend; I love slang.
I’m not reading any negative connotation at all.
For what it’s worth, those examples for ‘accident’ are being used as euphemisms to soften the blow of the intended message, and you can’t soften the blow without using soft words.
Car accidents have noun-ified the word a bit, though, so I do see where you’re coming from.
Surely “car accidents” aren’t the only way it’s been “noun-ified”?
Even the Latin form would mean “misfortune”.
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Latin.
You… don’t need to be able to in order to follow along here. I provided an image as well. 👍
Mate, I’m familiar with the history of the word. I don’t read any negative connotations in the form OP is using.
Alright, mate.
Then I don’t understand what you’re argument is. You know the connotation people have, you know the origins of the word… 🤷♂️
Uh, my argument is that my eyes see no devils yonder. If you’d like to know why, I guess, have a look at 1-a.
I should have pulled up a dictionary to begin with, honestly. I just thought I was arguing from a more colloquial standpoint. Which I would still defend; I love slang.
Are we ignoring 1-b?
🤷♂️
I mean, I was hoping to, yeah.
I don’t much care about 2 or 3 either.