Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition

Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by mikeash on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:34AM (#19898616)

If you think people would misunderstand “rape” in this way, I’d suggest you spend your effort educating people who don’t understand the word, rather than trying to “correct” people using the word to mean what it means.

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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by HunOL on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:30AM (#19899025)

Well, solution would be introducing two new terms to solve this problem.

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Re:Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extrad... by mikeash on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:32AM (#19899599)

We already have different terms for different kinds of rape. For example, statutory rape, aggravated rape, forcible rape.

You can shout at clouds and try to change the language if you want, but that’s an extremely unproductive and entirely pointless path to take.

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