34 points | by robtherobber 5 hours ago
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This is a news article about a journalist using a more intensive adjective to describe an intensified phenomenon. The original Reuters article would probably have been more compelling reading.
We should name them after oil company execs
Words are words. The term does what it says on the tin. No change is needed. Article is whiney.
"Words are words" are something only a profoundly ignorant person would say.
This made me picture the IQ Bell Curve meme.
- Left: Words are words
- Middle: Only a profoundly ignorant person would say [that]
- Right: Words are words
We could still use "heatwave" with a magnitude suffix, like hurricanes. It's likely "heat storms" will need the magnitude suffix anyway.
What about armageddon? Or heatpocalypse?
This is a news article about a journalist using a more intensive adjective to describe an intensified phenomenon. The original Reuters article would probably have been more compelling reading.
We should name them after oil company execs
Words are words. The term does what it says on the tin. No change is needed. Article is whiney.
"Words are words" are something only a profoundly ignorant person would say.
This made me picture the IQ Bell Curve meme.
- Left: Words are words
- Middle: Only a profoundly ignorant person would say [that]
- Right: Words are words
We could still use "heatwave" with a magnitude suffix, like hurricanes. It's likely "heat storms" will need the magnitude suffix anyway.
What about armageddon? Or heatpocalypse?