Death Metaphor Debate
The cluster focuses on debates about the appropriateness, offensiveness, and accuracy of using death-related terms like 'killed', 'dead', 'death', and 'mortem' metaphorically in tech contexts such as project post-mortems or app descriptions.
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I think they mean "death prevented" vs "death inflicted".
That's a pretty roundabout way of saying "It's a pity they won't die a painful death".
How is using the word “dead” offensive?
“Death” seems a bit dramatic in this context.
i understand i'm nitpicking, but maybe someone should tell the author what "mortem" means? i was expecting something dead, a failure story. pick another worn out phrase ;)
That's very different from "killed".
The word used in the grandparent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899179) was “killed,” not “murdered”
It's not taboo, it's just misleading. It's like someone falling over, grazing their knee and saying, "Wow, that was like dying, but partial". It doesn't share enough key attributes with the thing you're comparing it to to be useful.
Thats a funny way of saying killed with obvious malicious intent.
"made a killing" is an unfortunate choice of phrase in this instance.