Context: A young adult tells his mother that he’s depressed and that life is meaningless and that he wants to die (suicide is not directly mentioned but implied). Then the mother proceeds to express “regretting giving birth to you” directly to that young adult.
(That young adult is me)
Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.
I don’t know how your mom is, but I found this funny recently, maybe you’ll too:
I was trying to think of a way to put it, but that’s a good sentence in this context for sure.
Also, yes, blood relation does not mean you have to put up with some asshole’s cruelty. Cut them out if you can.
I was just consuming some media and that line of “regretting giving birth” came up and I was just like: I hope that’s not that common.
Either you don’t know what normal is or common is if you think they’re different things…
Cancer is not normal cell tissue, but it’s very common. They are different words, with different meanings.
I’m so glad you chimed in. Everyone loves someone who starts a silly, pedantic argument for no good reason. That’s even more true on a thread where someone wants a serious response.
Maybe. The way I understand it:
Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.
For example: “Is police brutality normal?” vs “Is police brutality common?”
No and yes.
That is incorrect
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normal
First definition from your link:
I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be” not in a normative way but as in “the way you’d expect it to be since that’s the usual way”. That’s in line with the definition. Bottom line is both have several definitions but “normal” definitely has a very different connotation from “common”.
That’s a pretty safe guess considering they explicitly said that…
But I don’t think I’m going to make much ground explaining to you why they’re wrong either
You misunderstood that sentence but I’m fine with leaving it be too.