• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    7 days ago

    Is “torched” the new “slammed”? How is it people can’t sound like normal humans when writing a headline!?

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      6 days ago

      My first language isn’t English, and as I was trying to understand the headline, I thought “torch dead” might be an expression meaning, burning alive with torches or similar. So I was reading “reddit mods delete thread as doctors burn CEO alive”. The event described sounded much more brutal than it really was.

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      6 days ago

      In times like these we can probably turn to the WWE to draw upon more creative synonyms.

      Bernie Sanders COBRA CLUTCHES Republican Senators Over New Spending Bill