• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    “All the time” and “every time” are not even close to the same thing.

    So again, your link doesn’t contradict what I said.

    There are constant murder trials. Do you deny that fact?

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      You’re correct and I think your original statement was pretty fair - but “All the time” and other soft indications like that - serve poorly when we’re discussing something as serious as murder. Most murders go unsolved and while a very significant number of murders are resolved if you happen to be talking to someone who has intimate knowledge of a family member or friend being murdered “all the time” is likely to come across as cavalier.

      Our language gets weird around strongly emotional events (you’ll get a similar response if, at a friends’ wedding you comment “You know, most marriages end in divorce” even if it’s objectively the truth).

      So written by a person with a little bit of ASD and has similarly put their foot in their mouth in the past.