FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, ‘EPICENTER’ DOESN'T MEAN ‘ABSOLUTE CENTER’, IT MEANS THE OPPOSITE: ‘NEXT TO THE CENTER’ — THAT IS, ‘NOT THE CENTER’.
this epidemic is killing me.
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The semantics alone!
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Well, I mean — really.
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Is epidemic next to the demic?
I *think* epidemic is epi = ‘because of’ + demos = ‘people’, but I’m not positive and the Oed doesn’t say. Just as I assume ‘pandemic’ means ‘across all the people’.
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