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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:18PM (#24308253)
It is interesting that you say that. In English, we do use phrases like "X was destroyed by Z" ( I forget the exact idiom, but kids seem to be using it -- god I feel old ), where no actual destruction beyond verbal attack took place.

I know you were referring to something else, but it got me thinking that we are already using the phrase. Our legal system just does not allow a lot of 'word damage' to be adjudicated.

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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by mc32 on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:35PM (#24308433)
There was also “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can’t hurt me” that now seems in practice to have gone by the wayside.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by TeaDrunk on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:45PM (#24308535)
I'm not gonna lie when I was a child decades ago it was well known even amongst childrens books at the time that that line's a load of horse shit. There's tons of books where that exact phrase is used to show that ignoring verbal abuse is wrong and emotionally damaging.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by boring_twenties on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:38PM (#24313228)
You don't need any levels of indirection. https://old.reddit.com/r/murderedbywords

*Note, the sub isn't interesting, I'm just demonstrating that the phrase is already in use.

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