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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, it sounds like someone with a service dog. Horrible.[/quote]

That would elevate this from “wow, that sucks” to “holy shit, that is a tragedy”[/quote]

No, even if it's just a pet dog, this is a horrific tragedy.[/quote]

No, it’s just a terrible accident. It’s a bummer. But that isn’t by any definition a tragedy. [/quote]

Someone dying in a freak accident doesn't meet your definition of a tragedy?  What is your definition? [/quote]

Tragedies involve calamities or irony. Someone dying, even in a freak accident, is sad but it isn’t necessarily a tragedy. It just sucks.

Now if it was a service dog, it’s a tragedy because the service dog is presumably supposed to help a disabled person avoid such accidents and that didn’t happen.

I am seriously not trying to be crass. It’s just one of those words that is incorrectly used so frequently.
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You are one f’ed up person.   Your definition of “tragedy” is pedantic.   I don’t know anyone who thinks irony is required for an event to be tragic.  This poor guy dying from a freak accident on metro meets the definition of tragic for any normal English-speaker.  [/quote]

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