Poor Choice of Words...

[EZ1]

One of the game-generated (I think) messages uses a poor choice of words. The message is something like "Xyz murdered the tail gunner...". This is not "murder" unless that tail gunner was tied to a tree or dangling in his shute. Can't we just say killed.

[Freycinet]

I suggest "assassinated" or "butchered". Or maybe "plinked"?

[ATAG_Snapper]

"Given the chop"?

[Ibis]

Resting maybe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

cheers,
Ibis

[White Owl]

It's a good point. Military combatants do not murder each other; they kill each other. "Murder" implies an illegal act.

[_RAAF_Smouch]

The gunner/pilot whatever suffered a sudden case of lead poisoning

[Sturm_Williger]

Do agree with the OP, I've seen that in several screenshots and it always jars.

"killed" is more than adequate.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by White Owl

It's a good point. Military combatants do not murder each other; they kill each other. "Murder" implies an illegal act.

I think it probably doesn't make a difference to the dead man how his demise is described. Dead is dead.

[JG52Uther]

As a suggesion put it in this thread (in the correct format please) as it will have a better chance of getting noticed.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28341

[swiss]

Originally Posted by White Owl

It's a good point. Military combatants do not murder each other; they kill each other. "Murder" implies an illegal act.

No, murder implies a plan, an intention to kill s.o.
It would be manslaughter, which makes me think we should call it:
...slaughtered tail gunner.


Then again it's bs.
As an ex tank commander I can tell you we have the full intention to kill the enemy tank's crew and not the tank per se.
Why should you judge pilots different?
Why did so many pilots explicit aim for the cockpit?