CronoDAS comments on A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia - Less Wrong

23 Post author: johnlawrenceaspden 14 February 2016 01:14PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 03 March 2016 11:12:50PM 1 point [-]

Minus the "literally", though, the word "decimated" in current English uses would include much more severe population declines. I'm just being unnecessarily pedantic.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 03 March 2016 11:31:25PM 0 points [-]

Spectacular pedantry is sort of where I'm coming from here, though. And actually literally can be used metaphorically too, and has been for some centuries. I'm confidently expecting this to be the most controversial assertion in this entire discussion, so you can go look for your own references. [Openly trolling now]