• mang0@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    I primarily thought of the first point but didn’t understand what you meant since the word survivor is used incorrectly, but from the context it would seem like you mean relatives and friends.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      transitive verb
      1: to remain alive after the death of
      “he is survived by his wife”

      • mang0@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        survivor noun. a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died.

        I would accept your passive aggressive contribution if the word in question was the verb “survive” and not the noun “survivor”. Fuck off.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Noun: […]
          3. One who knew a specific decedent.
          “She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors”

          Via wiktionary.

          Did you really just not look this up, at all? Seriously, this is an extremely common usage of the term. Why are you so defensive about this? For that matter, why do you think arguing semantics at all is relevant to the discussion at hand - beyond just making you look like you’re arguing in bad faith?