VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to AntiTrumpAlliance@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4か月前Trump on Iran: At least 13 US service men and over 3400 Iranian service men, with an estimated 10,000 civilian casualties - including 168 school childrendiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down110
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minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·4か月前“Service men”? Makes it sound like they are in the peace corps or missionaries. How about “soldier”?
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4か月前Cause not everyone in the military is a soldier.
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·4か月前Do you have a better word that doesn’t make militaries sound like they’re on some charitable mission
minus-squareJumi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4か月前In Germany they’re called citizens in uniform nowadays
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4か月前servicemen is all branches. soldiers is army, airmen is airforce, etc. they are using precise legal language for the US military. it’s literally the word they chose like, two hundred years ago i think?
minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4か月前Always feels newspeak-adjacent to me, idk
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4か月前legal language is practically newspeak so you aren’t wrong
“Service men”? Makes it sound like they are in the peace corps or missionaries. How about “soldier”?
Cause not everyone in the military is a soldier.
Do you have a better word that doesn’t make militaries sound like they’re on some charitable mission
In Germany they’re called citizens in uniform nowadays
servicemen is all branches. soldiers is army, airmen is airforce, etc. they are using precise legal language for the US military. it’s literally the word they chose like, two hundred years ago i think?
Always feels newspeak-adjacent to me, idk
legal language is practically newspeak so you aren’t wrong