Words with a violent meaning often appear in communications in which there is no mention of rudeness, in fact, we are talking about the exact opposite.
The media parades a whole legion of self-aggrandizing expressions; linguistic dominance is common. The consequence of this is often the rejection of meaning and even the confusion of words. of stars , queens , legends , and the fantastic used for more and more people in the series of vivid but functionless exaggerations .
This line includes the already discussed brutal and its adverbial version, brutally . Their proliferation also increases the number of words with violent content.
But the media can bid on even this, e.g. the horroristic , inhuman or drastic , also without a collar.
The media refers to the " horroristic I wonder what they are thinking? Biologists would surely deny this statement: " A man caught a horrible Because they say, for a reason: every living being is beautiful in its own way. So - for us - that fish has a special appearance "Amazing: horrific mistake", reads the title of a press report. The background of this sentence: a Peruvian player could not hit the empty net. So there is no question of horror - this is clumsiness the attacker made a mistake, i.e. he made a mistake, he messed up , in other words: he missed a 100% chance to score . (And make , we don't sin .)
The world-famous singer " looks horrifying The title giving, which does not show even the slightest sign of politeness or tact, could have been more fortunate and accurate (even if in some snapshots he is standing on a beautiful lady who is not attractive) : her appearance is amazing, astonishing or surprising Because there is no horror here.
" an inhuman voice," praises the contestant of a talent competition jury. In Hungarian: his voice is charming, dazzling , or special, distinctive, unique, powerful, penetrating, resonant " an inhuman struggle" from the handball team to be able to win - the media is inaccurate. Freely: an all-consuming, superhuman struggle, titanic struggle. " Inhuman performance: a man rowed for five days" on a surfboard in the Pacific Ocean - the press gets the word wrong again elsewhere. Expressed succinctly and precisely: an amazing, sensational, commendable, admirable, extraordinary achievement.
Lexemes with an offensive edge also include the drastic . Its meaning is primarily: 'ruthless, rough, violent, crude, mean' (behavior, behavior, speech), 'forceful, exaggerated' (action). We encounter it step by step: " drastic weight loss", " drastic step", " drastic changes", " drastic cold front", " drastic coffee prices", etc. We can use one of the quoted meanings instead of the trite and foreign adjective. Or these: cruel, combative, offensive, hurtful, unpleasant, very large, strong, etc.
And the adverbial version is rampant as a buzzword: " The number of smokers among young people is increasing drastically " The proportion of 15-year-old Hungarian children who are no longer able to solve simple tasks is increasing drastically " Costs for milk producers are increasing drastically " The number of birds is drastically " drastically , which poses the same threat to humanity as global warming," the media shouts to the world. This word can also be replaced by the adverbial version of one of the Hungarian adjectives already cited, or e.g. for this: to a large extent, significantly, strongly, outstandingly, significantly, significantly, prominently.
By the way, the media has become so used to the repetition of the drastic unos-boring that it is no longer noticed if it is used even when it shouldn't be: " drastically increases your vocabulary"; " Fuel prices are dropping drastically And: " drastically ," they write, and they also explain: "The unusual weather over Antarctica drastically reduced ozone loss in September and October."
Thus, words with a violent meaning appear more than once in communications that otherwise do not mention any kind of violence, or even sometimes the exact opposite. the " drastic (meaning: joyfully large ) increase in vocabulary", see also e.g. these: brutally (read: charmingly ) lovely; inhuman (read: amazing, beautifully resonant ) singing voice.
Big question: why do you have to use aggressive words even when something good is happening?!
Author: LAJOS ARANY
