Estranged

Bottle_of_Smoke

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?

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

tman

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

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

the fnj

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

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