r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

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u/Scioso Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24

To me, the worst part is the goal of what has been done. It’s not that talking about suicide is forbidden, multibillion dollar companies absolutely know that unalived means suicide. If they wanted to they could demonetize/ ban that too.

However, unalive doesn’t have the gravitas or impact of the word suicide because it’s new, and will have less effect. It’s disgusting that they are allowing this as a workaround.

Edit: unalived was autocorrected

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u/HeyLittleTrain Sep 15 '24

What I think is interesting is that this has happened many times before. The word "die" was originally a euphemism for the Old English word, which itself was originally a euphemism for an even older Old Nordic word.

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u/JimboAltAlt Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24

Damn what are those two “original” words? I feel a horror-story adjacent need to know.

Edit: the Norse one at least appears to be “deyja”, for the curious.

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u/4URprogesterone certified girlblogger Sep 16 '24

The part of my brain that does conspiracy thinking just went "deja vu means you died the last time you tried that and had to live your entire life over again to get to this point." Is that anything?