Comments on: A Real-Life Jaws Off the Jersey Shore, In 1916 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/13/a-real-life-jaws-off-the-jersey-shore-in-1916/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/13/a-real-life-jaws-off-the-jersey-shore-in-1916/#comment-33964 Brian Too Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:17:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39184#comment-33964 Actually I partly disagree with Mr. Burgess. All animals inhabit their territory, including lice. The term "infest" is a value judgment. I take no issue with the value judgment per se. If the presence of those animals is undesirable to the speaker/writer, at that place and time, then "infest" is perfectly fine. Sharks may infest, lice may infest, crabgrass may infest. Some of the higher animals may feel that humans infest! Where value judgments become problematic is when they are used exclusively, implying that there is no acceptable habitat for the creature in question. Actually I partly disagree with Mr. Burgess. All animals inhabit their territory, including lice. The term “infest” is a value judgment.

I take no issue with the value judgment per se. If the presence of those animals is undesirable to the speaker/writer, at that place and time, then “infest” is perfectly fine. Sharks may infest, lice may infest, crabgrass may infest. Some of the higher animals may feel that humans infest!

Where value judgments become problematic is when they are used exclusively, implying that there is no acceptable habitat for the creature in question.

]]> By: Chris the Canadian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/13/a-real-life-jaws-off-the-jersey-shore-in-1916/#comment-33963 Chris the Canadian Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:33:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39184#comment-33963 One other note on this. I invite every Great White Shark in the Atlantic Ocean to hunt in the waters off the Jersey shore and predate on a species of sub human known as a Snooki. One other note on this. I invite every Great White Shark in the Atlantic Ocean to hunt in the waters off the Jersey shore and predate on a species of sub human known as a Snooki.

]]> By: Chris the Canadian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/13/a-real-life-jaws-off-the-jersey-shore-in-1916/#comment-33962 Chris the Canadian Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:31:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39184#comment-33962 We should change how we describe waters where sharks live as 'Human Infested Waters', we are infesting their home not vica versa .... We should change how we describe waters where sharks live as ‘Human Infested Waters’, we are infesting their home not vica versa ….

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