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The “Bharat Arimilli” points to the “Nandert” video.
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Please add upload date / publishing date to the linked videos / articles, when available.
I like the videos Nandert make, but I usually can’t remember if I’ve seen a video without at least seeing the thumbnal. However the publishing date would be a great clue – if it was published a while ago and now made it into a fridays read thingie, I’ve probably already watched the video. if the date is recently though, I’ve probably not watched it yet.
“… fridays read thingie …”
Absolutely delicious wording – both so vague and yet so spot on !!
Re: Accidents versus Collisions
I get it, but I do wonder sometimes if this preoccupation with language isn’t quite as critically important as some people think it is. Folk will say “it’s one small step to making the world a better place” or whatever, but is it, really?
No-one is seriously sitting behind the wheel of a car thinking “oh well I was happy being involved in accidents but now they’re called collisions, well, I’d better reconsider my life choices” are they?
In the end, this is a form of linguistic determinism, a belief widely discredited by empirical studies, or the milder version linguistic relativity for which there is some weak evidence but is not widely accepted amongst contemporary linguists.
Either way, there’s little evidence that changing the word we use will actually do anything to reduce the number of harmful incidents involving motor vehicles.