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Originally Posted by Nitehawk013
Or we could call it what it really is. A mild version of body mutilation.
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mu·ti·late (mytl-t)
tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates
1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at batter1.
3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.
mutilate
verb
1.
maim,
damage,
injure,
disable, butcher, cripple, hack, lame, cut up, mangle,
dismember, disfigure, lacerate,
cut to pieces He tortured and mutilated six young men.
2. distort, cut, damage, mar, spoil, butcher, hack, censor, adulterate, expurgate, bowdlerize
The writer's verdict was that his screenplay had been mutilated.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mutilate
Calling piercing the ears a form of mutilation is really a rather large stretch of the truth. As you can see from the vast majority of definitions above, ear piercing barely fits any of the definitions. Couple that with the connotation that mutilation is usually something that is very bloody, gory, and leaves the mutilated in a very noticable state due to the horrendous condition their body is left in. Attempting to call ear piercing a form of mutilation is a lie.
And you see while it may not be a lie by the connotation of what a lie is, it is definately a lie under the definition of what a lie is. (lie ... 2. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.) So since calling ear piercing a form of mutilation gives the wrong impression, then by definition this is a lie. The point is, its much better to use words with their connotation than their denotation. Otherwise people are going to look at you as funny as you are looking at me by saying what you did was lie.
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