“Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives”
Just one of my peeves, perhaps, but I’ve never cared for the phrase “lost their life”. It makes it seem like it was something innocent bystanders simply misplaced, and that it was their fault for doing so.
They didn’t lose their lives. Their lives were taken from them.
“Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives”
Just one of my peeves, perhaps, but I’ve never cared for the phrase “lost their life”. It makes it seem like it was something innocent bystanders simply misplaced, and that it was their fault for doing so.
They didn’t lose their lives. Their lives were taken from them.
When people are *killed* we should say so.