OnyxShine9

1y

Pearl Harbors day is referred to as ‘Remembrance’, 9/11s day is called ‘Memorial’, and Challengers day is just called ‘Space Shuttle Challenger disaster’ day. Anniversary is synonymous with those terms but they aren’t necessarily interchangeable because of the common social context of them… with anniversary being a positive one.

Call any of those days an anniversary in front of any normal person and they’re going to look at you weird.

OnyxShine9

1y

Pearl Harbors day is referred to as ‘Remembrance’, 9/11s day is called ‘Memorial’, and Challengers day is just called ‘Space Shuttle Challenger disaster’ day. Anniversary is synonymous with those terms but they aren’t necessarily interchangeable because of the common social context of them… with anniversary being a positive one.

Call any of those days an anniversary in front of any normal person and they’re going to look at you weird.

k dog 99

1y

Nah dawg, those are still anniversaries. Anniversary does not have to be a positive thing. People say that all the time, its very overdramatic to act otherwise.

Anniversaries commemorate (or celebrate) things in the past on the date of the event, commemorate means to honor the memory of.

Words mean things and that is the definition. Everyone is just bashing that word for the sake of being outraged.

OnyxShine9

1y

Like I said, they are synonymous on the most technical levels of levels, but most people are going to refer to them as memorial days, commemorations, reserved, etc. if everyone is saying it sounds weird to call it that then it probably sounds weird.

k dog 99

1y

Can't believe how many are just objectively wrong on the definition of anniversary.

Glentothe

1y

No they are not, you are choosing to argue over the most trivial points; whether it’s a war, disaster, someone’s death anniversary is literally a word used to mark the date of that event and I’m not going to change it to another synonym such as remembrance because you want to argue over semantics I swear people on here argue for the sake of arguing, must be a slow day

k dog 99

1y

Those words are also used more for an event about the anniversary, not just the date itself.

There is no memorial going on for the start of the war, its just a discussion on it being 1 year ago from today.

Glentothe

1y

No they are not, you are choosing to argue over the most trivial points; whether it’s a war, disaster, someone’s death anniversary is literally a word used to mark the date of that event and I’m not going to change it to another synonym such as remembrance because you want to argue over semantics I swear people on here argue for the sake of arguing, must be a slow day

OnyxShine9

1y

I’ll give that it’s not used ‘exclusively’ in events of fond remembrance, but there are more appropriate words to use to remark the start of a war. There’s a reason you’ve never heard anyone else celebrate the start of WWI WW2 or any other war and describe it as an ‘anniversary’.

You can keep it as is, but it sounds weird and there are better ways to put it.

sace

1y

Years since Biden funneling billions into a slice of western democracy.

OnyxShine9

1y

Pearl Harbors day is referred to as ‘Remembrance’, 9/11s day is called ‘Memorial’, and Challengers day is just called ‘Space Shuttle Challenger disaster’ day. Anniversary is synonymous with those terms but they aren’t necessarily interchangeable because of the common social context of them… with anniversary being a positive one.

Call any of those days an anniversary in front of any normal person and they’re going to look at you weird.

zeus man

1y

They also use “anniversary” when it comes to September 11th, or Katrina, or The sandy hook incident

Glentothe

1y

Why are people ITT struggling with the word anniversary? anniversary literally means the date in which something began/ended… hence minutes silences on the ANNIVERSARIES of the start/end of previous wars e.g. WW1 and WW2.