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Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day (www.euronews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So if "malnourished" is better, as you imply, let's use that instead. The issue is not hunger by any non-academic definition of the word.

You've made your case. Mine is that this is a clear example of sensationalist lexical inflation. Like calling everyone right of center a Nazi, it is intended to provoke engagement and emotion rather than to describe a fact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I agree with you on the fact that this inflation is a problem. I just think that we need to avoid inflation in terms of complaining about it as well. As it stands now anything that's at least not contradicting the dictionary is tolerable in my opinion. Well, at least on social media. In academia your approach is obviously best.