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if only there was a word for like a multiple of a hundred...hmm maybe "hundreds"!
Am curious what the US media will do in following situation - god forbid it happens. Israel launches an monstrous attack in Gaza on a UN school. An Al Jazeera reporter eye witness watches the attack unfold and she's nearly killed herself. In the immediate aftermath she says that it appears that the IDF killed at least several hundred people. It's clearly a bloodbath.
It's obvious the US media will avoid the word "school" and it will use passive grammatical constructions. But they will want to avoid "hundreds" if they can. Will they still use "scores of"?
My first thought is the go-to hasbara phrase that becomes their copypasta is "large scale operation". Hours later when the number of dead is estimated at least 500 - they use euphemisms like "There was an unfortunate large scale loss of life".
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What do you (person reading this) think?
It'll be the icing on the cake if they use the word 'madrasa', the Arabic word for school, used by the media correctly for once since ever
I mean that sounds like exactly what just happened, unless that's your point