I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

This is from the WaPo newsletter The Week In Ideas, and is a summary of a particular opinion piece:

Doomed humanity could certainly use the skills — and the resilience to cope with life and death — that kids learn in [4-H] clubs.

Please, please, please, learn the meaning of doom. It’s a terminator, in word and in deed, implying imminence, for we all will meet death, or so the common wisdom goes, but those who are doomed cannot be helped, and, soon, will not be able to use it.

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