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Using the word 'war' too much

  • Websurfinbird
    Is it just me, or is the word 'war' tossed around way too much when referring to things that have nothing to do with real battles?

    For example, I work for a retail news Web site, and I cannot tell you how many press releases I read using the term "war on prices" over the past holiday shopping season. Not only did I find it ridiculous, I found it quite wrong.

    When I think of the word war, I think of people on both sides giving their lives to defend their homelands and their beliefs. I think of the families who have to wonder whether or not their loved ones are going to come home.

    In short I think it is a serious thing and don't like when it is tossed around to illicit an emotional response in people.
  • 442310
    And here I thought this thread meant there was a coming of the old...


    WAR Rahiem and the Old School Days!
  • said_aouita
    I also don't particularly like it when a coach makes a comment about wanting an athlete/team to, "go to war" against the opponent.
  • cologino
    it's just you
  • trackandccrunner
    442310 wrote: And here I thought this thread meant there was a coming of the old...


    WAR Rahiem and the Old School Days!
    This is what I thought too.

    WAR Rahiem and the good old days!
  • GOONx19
    I hereby motion to declare war on all excessive use of the word.
  • gorocks99
    1,2,3,4, I declare a thumb contest.
  • Nate
    Dictionary

    5. aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.
    6. a struggle: a war for men's minds; a war against poverty.

    There are more than 1 meaning for words. I don't have a problem with it.

    It's like your name "Websurfinbird".

    Do you use a surf board to "surf" the web?
  • Websurfinbird
    Keebler wrote: Dictionary

    5. aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.
    6. a struggle: a war for men's minds; a war against poverty.

    There are more than 1 meaning for words. I don't have a problem with it.

    It's like your name "Websurfinbird".

    Do you use a surf board to "surf" the web?
    Maybe I do .... :P

    Good point though.
  • Heretic
    trackandccrunner wrote:
    442310 wrote: And here I thought this thread meant there was a coming of the old...


    WAR Rahiem and the Old School Days!
    This is what I thought too.

    WAR Rahiem and the good old days!
    WAR war!
  • Nate
    WAR Beer
  • Heretic
    Beer > War.