Wounded and Juicy
By stealthy
@stealthy (8181)
United States
August 23, 2010 5:36pm CST
The national and local news people have gotten in the last few months or so to where when someone is hurt in an accident or in a storm, they say they were wounded rather than hurt or injured as if they were in a war or something. Sounds they they just want to sensationalize it. Also, the weather people have taken to calling humid air juicy; I guess they think it sounds more sexy or something. Both these cases lower the information level of what is being reported.
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@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
24 Aug 10
I have not heard humid weather reported as juicy...
I would imagine that reporting someone as being hurt means the same as a report of injury or being wounded. I tend to think of an injury as something that isn't bleeding .. a break, sprain even being paralyzed - and I would tend to think of a wound as something that involves blood as a wound is something open that requires treatment.
So I think there is a difference between the two and they are actually being more technical - not dramatic.
