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Estranged

  • 30-07-2003 12:49AM
    #1
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭


    I think this word shoud be changed\banned from media, when I was younger I thought it meant the said person had been at some point comitted.

    It gives a bad impression of anyone in the news who happens to be divorced and journalists play on this constantly.

    "A worried mother cried as her estranged husband...."

    Anyone?


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  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    i see no problem with it at all. i always considered "estranged" to mean seperated or divorced.

    the song is pretty good too BTW


  • #3
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    surely this would've been better suited to english... (or maybe humanities:confused:)

    any forum that i'm not subbed to would be fine by me really.:rolleyes:


  • #4
    the fnj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭the fnj


    I’m confident that the anglophiles over at English will know what to do with this. ;)


  • #5
    Praetorian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    I always assumed "estranged" meant that a couple were divorced or seperated.

    I thought it meant the said person had been at some point comitted.


    I've checked my Oxford English dictionary and I'm fairly sure that's incorrect. Also take a look at
    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Estranged


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