Timeline for Metaphorical use of “patricide”
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 23:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Even I am cognisant with that usage. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 19:53 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @EdwinAshworth quite apart from it being common in English to metaphorically refer to acts of violence generally, a barrister who managed to convince a jury that the writer was claiming that the protégé turning on the mentor led directly to the protégé's father's death, and hence damaged the esteem in the which their law-abiding peers hold them to a degree reparable by the payment of damages, would have to be more than half-decent. They could ambulance chase music journalists who say a band "really killed" at a gig. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 19:34 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I think that the fact that 'patricide is indeed not as often used in this way in English' could be put forward by a half-decent barrister as grounds for there being 'a suggestion that you literally killed someone'. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 18:36 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @EdwinAshworth unless there's a suggestion that you literally killed someone, there's no potential for libel. Otherwise just about every enthusiastic report on sporting success would be similarly a libellous claim of murder or at least assault. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:36 | comment | added | skymandr | @Jon Hanna: An interesting and important perspective on the matter! | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:27 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | And probably libellous. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 17:15 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |