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Is what happened to the word, tragedy, a tragedy?

Do you know what is never called a tragedy? A tragedy as originally defined.

Everything else, everything, is now called a tragedy.

Murderous attacks against Christians by Mahometans?  A tragedy.

An illegal invader gets eaten by a giant catfish trying to sneak into America? A tragedy.

Some broad whose belly gets blowed-up after a botched band surgery for obesity? A tragedy.







tragedy (n.) Look up tragedy at Dictionary.com
late 14c., "play or other serious literary work with an unhappy ending," from Old French tragedie (14c.), from Latin tragedia "a tragedy," from Greek tragodia "a dramatic poem or play in formal language and having an unhappy resolution," apparently literally "goat song," from tragos "goat" + oide "song" (see ode).

The connection may be via satyric drama, from which tragedy later developed, in which actors or singers were dressed in goatskins to represent satyrs. But many other theories have been made (including "singer who competes for a goat as a prize"), and even the "goat" connection is at times questioned. Meaning "any unhappy event, disaster" is from c. 1500