(May 30, 2015 at 11:16 am)Neimenovic Wrote: One word I hate seeing especially in news reports is 'miracle'. The surgery was successful -miracle; the plane landed safely -miracle; woman survived difficult delivery -miracle. It's utterly disrespectful to the skill, years of training and dedication and hard work of the people who were behind this so called 'miracle'. It's amazing, yes, but there ain't nothing supernatural about it.
I completely agree. To me it comes a close second to "blessed" as a much overused word.
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