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Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland by mtmail on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:40PM (#37203611)
Not sure I understand the insult. The article mentioned the distances and called it half ironman (Ironman 70.3 might be more correct, but I think everybody calls that half anyway).

Adding the word to the title doesn't make a huge difference to me "Two men die in Half Ironman Cork competition in Ireland"

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Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland by FrustratedMonky on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:43PM (#37203633)
Guess wording can be taken in different ways.

>"They were competing in a so-called half Ironman event".

This seemed to indicate it was a lesser event. "so-called". But maybe it was just referring to a type of event. And it was just poor grammar?

Who knows, maybe it was GPT producing the text?

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Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland by cauthon on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:53PM (#37203709)
No, it's just pointing out the colloquialism.

"IRONMAN" and "IRONMAN 70.3" are the official names, even though "full" and "half" are how they're commonly referenced.

"so-called" isn't diminutive or derogatory

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