More Reasons to Avoid Pedantry (Even When You're Right)

Author: Scyess

Date: July 5, 2002

by Scyess
7-05-02
That's silly. You're uncle can't have had a "massive" heart attack. Heart attacks don't have mass!
Maybe the blood clot has mass, but hardly enough to be called "massive." And the heart attack itself is a condition, and as such totally lacks mass...
grrr...
...and that's when she gave me a massive beating.
Don't be silly, Jon! Beatings don't have mass!