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Old 03.14.2011, 02:58 PM   #49
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the abuse of the word "tragic" makes me slightly impatient. tragedy is a species of theatre, not the human suffering it depicts. of course with use the thing got backwards, but it still should keep the flavor of sophocles or corneille or even arthur miller.

here a few handy synonyms for everyone's continuous re-reporting of the news:

catastrophe / catastrophic
calamity / calamitous
disaster / disastrous
cataclysm / cataclysmic

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