Timeline for The sick vs. The injured
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| Mar 10 at 21:50 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 10 at 21:38 | answer | added | Astralbee | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 10 at 19:04 | answer | added | fateme | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 10 at 14:51 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | English traditionally can use an adjective to mean 'people in that condition' - the wounded, the poor and so on - though nowadays it's considered more respectful to use expressions like people living in poverty. For an individual, you have to use a noun - the sick man, the injured woman. | |
| Mar 10 at 13:10 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 10 at 13:04 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | No - if a group of people are hurt because of an accident we refer to them as injured or wounded. In general, sick people are people who have diseases. In some contexts we need to refer to people with health problems without distinguishing between those with injuries and those with diseases, in which case it's possible to call them all sick, but we generally try to avoid that anyway (often, they're all just patients receiving / needing medical treatment). | |
| Mar 10 at 12:46 | comment | added | user405662 | An injured person is a sick person in the sense their health is not OK. Doesn't work the other way round. | |
| Mar 10 at 12:42 | history | asked | Jake | CC BY-SA 4.0 |