I mean, I hear you, but knives and guns have verbs that have the general connotation of lethality. “Shot,” and “stabbed,” have easily understood repercussions within a single term. We need a word for cars, and we don’t have one. I understand that “person hit person with car” has a sentence structure implying grave harm, but there simply isn’t the cognitive weight behind “hit” as there is “stabbed” or “shot.” “Hit,” “murdered,” etc. all implicitly bury the lede of “car” just by merit of their generality.
“Pedestrian struck by driver” is pretty clear. I get what you’re saying but c’mon, there are lots of words in the English language even most people these days have severely reduced vocabularies.
I mean, I hear you, but knives and guns have verbs that have the general connotation of lethality. “Shot,” and “stabbed,” have easily understood repercussions within a single term. We need a word for cars, and we don’t have one. I understand that “person hit person with car” has a sentence structure implying grave harm, but there simply isn’t the cognitive weight behind “hit” as there is “stabbed” or “shot.” “Hit,” “murdered,” etc. all implicitly bury the lede of “car” just by merit of their generality.
“Pedestrian struck by driver” is pretty clear. I get what you’re saying but c’mon, there are lots of words in the English language even most people these days have severely reduced vocabularies.