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  • 22-04-2012 12:23PM
    #1
    sReq | uTeK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭


    Hi All.

    Just wondering if you could help me out here, having a debate with the other half, who also happens to use boards.

    We were having a discussion about how long the human body can go without food, approximately 1 month.

    then I said, "yea your body would eat itself into submission, i.e 'DEATH'

    Is this in the context of the argument a plausible sentence?


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  • #2
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    I would have thought submission would be an option you would take to escape death... Eg. I submit to you so I don't get killed. Submission is defined as the acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the power of ones superior or superiors. So sorry but I think you have used the word 'submission' somewhat out of context if you meant to say death. According to the English dictionary submission does not mean death or dying nor is submission another word for death. Submission is an alternative route someone may take in order to avoid death or dying.


  • #3
    wavehopper1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭wavehopper1


    I'd disagree with the previous poster. Submission doesn't mean death, but I think it's legitimate to say that someone submits to death. Or in your case, submits to the circumstances that lead to death.

    Tell your other half you win ;)


  • #4
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    I agree one can submit to death.. Absolutely! But can a body eat itself into submission???


  • #5
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    wavehopper1 wrote: »
    I'd disagree with the previous poster. Submission doesn't mean death, but I think it's legitimate to say that someone submits to death. Or in your case, submits to the circumstances that lead to death.

    Tell your other half you win ;)

    I agree someone can submit to death... Absolutely! But can a body eat itself into submission???? If a body is starving and using all it's protein and fat stores etc and digesting itself.... This point is valid. But to digest itself into submission???? Just sounds like a weird sentence.....


  • #6
    wavehopper1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭wavehopper1


    Sligo1 wrote: »
    I agree someone can submit to death... Absolutely! But can a body eat itself into submission???? If a body is starving and using all it's protein and fat stores etc and digesting itself.... This point is valid. But to digest itself into submission???? Just sounds like a weird sentence.....

    Is Sligo1 the other half? :D


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  • #7
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    wavehopper1 wrote: »
    Is Sligo1 the other half? :D

    Lol.... Possibly....


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    What's the actual argument?


  • #9
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the actual argument?

    Argument... What would you take from the sentence " the body would eat itself into submission"?


  • #10
    sReq | uTeK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭sReq | uTeK


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the actual argument?

    Basically my sentence which was

    Your body would eat itself into submission
    Is a valid sentence when used in the context of talking about how long you can survive without food.


  • #11
    sReq | uTeK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭sReq | uTeK


    Sligo1 wrote: »
    pickarooney wrote: »
    What's the actual argument?

    Argument... What would you take from the sentence " the body would eat itself into submission"?

    Take into account the CONTEXT the sentence was used in, which was about how long you could live without food.


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  • #12
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    sReq | uTeK wrote: »
    Take into account the CONTEXT the sentence was used in, which was about how long you could live without food.

    No it wasnt! I said you'd probably last about a month or so... and you said.. yea the body would eat itself into submission!!!!
    .... hahahaha.......


  • #13
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I can't see any Creative Writing angle to this whatsoever

    Moving to English.


  • #14
    Sligo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭Sligo1


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I can't see any Creative Writing angle to this whatsoever

    Moving to English.

    Neither do I!


  • #15
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Might have been better in Relationship Issues, on second thoughts :pac:


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