Talk:diarrhea
Latest comment: 3 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: August–October 2015
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Rfv-sense: The watery excrement that comes from said bowel movements. Seems dodgy to me. ---> Tooironic (talk) 11:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- As in "There's diarrhea all over the floor"? Sounds OK to me. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:58, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- I've added three quotations. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 12:23, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- Strikes me as distinct as well, "I've got diarrhea" refers to the condition not the excrement itself, right? Renard Migrant (talk) 14:32, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- This sense is widespread in the US and UK. A Google search for "covered in diarrhoea" gets 1200 hits on .uk sites. On the other hand, it gets only 160 on .au sites and 4 on .nz sites, whereas "covered in shit" gets 2000 .uk, 2500 .au, 900 .nz. Perhaps the presence/absence of the sense is a regional thing? - -sche (discuss) 18:19, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I saw this earlier and the absence of what is perhaps just as common a sense, at least in my experience, was somewhat striking, but being as I am not an expert on diarrhea, I wasn't audacious enough to edit it. But watery, runny poop is definitely referred to as "diarrhea" around here (eastern US). Aperiarcam (talk) 18:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- My god, could it really be a regional thing? How bizarre. ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:59, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- Are you saying that to you, diarrhea isn't both the medical condition and the feces that comes out during the condition? Which is it for you then, or another definition all together? Renard Migrant (talk) 17:34, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Apparently it's only the medical condition but not the feces that results. This isn't entirely surprising: I wouldn't say "there's dysentery all over the floor" to refer to the feces that results from the condition of dysentery. - -sche (discuss) 17:40, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
- Are you saying that to you, diarrhea isn't both the medical condition and the feces that comes out during the condition? Which is it for you then, or another definition all together? Renard Migrant (talk) 17:34, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- My god, could it really be a regional thing? How bizarre. ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:59, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- RFV-passed, and we learned something neat (that Aussies don't use the "feces" sense). - -sche (discuss) 17:40, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
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