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A rather curious choice
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It seems a rather curious choice to use V for 'Victim', instead of D for 'Dead'
Survivor can be switched to 'Survived' (which is how I first read it anyways), and the impact of the image much emphasized.
Just my $0.02
Oh, and I saw that the actual RMS Titanic page didn't have the image, so I will move it there. It's still a pretty great pictogram, and should serve well, even with the slightly obtuse and more than slightly euphemistic "V."
I'll leave it to someone who can more effortlessly and skillfully modify images than myself to change the "V" to "D." That is, should they agree that this more clearly communicates the mortal impact of the differential in survival vs death toll across class.
Inthedryer (talk) 00:57, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Inthedryer, thanks for your note, which I've just seen. The terminology was made consistent with that on Passengers_of_the_RMS_Titanic#Survivors_and_victims. I also find the parts of speech of "Survivor" and "Dead" a little inconsistent, one being a noun and the other more often used as an adjective; I could use "Death" instead, but feel one is a subset of person and the other a condition. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 20:31, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
