Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal...
by newacct583 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:37PM
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Your definition would seem to insist that a nuclear warhead is not a "lethal" weapon, since no one has died to one in three quarters of a century. I guess "reasonable" is an opinion thing, but I think it's pretty clear that the usage in that headline is conventional and correct.
Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal...
by sokoloff on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:14PM
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It does not insist on that, but it does mean that “saturated fats more lethal than firearms” would be plausibly correct and “saturated fats more lethal than nuclear weapons” being almost surely correct.
Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal...
by newacct583 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:06PM
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> “saturated fats more lethal than firearms” would be plausibly correct
Then I don't know which dialect you speak, but that's an outrageously weird interpretation. It's certainly not the way the word "lethal" is defined or interpreted in common usage among the folks I've known.
There are at least two reasonable readings of that sentence. One is that US roads have more fatal accident risk per mile driven. Another is that the set of US roads is the scene of more total fatalities.
The second one is a more natural reading to me, but presumably not to some others.