Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation

Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by scrrr on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:44AM (#8752175)

Off topic, but has it occurred to anyone that the overuse of the term 'war on x' might impair what the word 'war' really stands for?

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by otherusername on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:59AM (#8752263)

"Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J. Edgar Hoover's "war on crime" in the 1930s".

We've been using it as a metaphor since 1930's. It hasn't impaired the "real" usage of the word "War" so far. I doubt it will in the future.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by pluma on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:43AM (#8752839)

To be fair, the US has always been at war with Eastasia.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by danbruc on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:00AM (#8752270)

George Carlin more than 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilipDBclxRc

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by JetSpiegel on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:10AM (#8752311)

Edwin Starr too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHUAJTZqF0

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by ctdonath on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:19AM (#8752358)

Well, not long after the term started (Hoover), the US Congress ceased to "declare war" when proceeding to engage in what obviously is war. Now it's just "kinetic military action" or some such, never a statement of "the USA hereby declares war on ______ ...".

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by jessaustin on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:55AM (#8752237)

That ship done sailed. Like, in the 1960s. No worries, though, because if any concept deserves impairing and besmirching, surely war does?

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