Business Standard is a pink paper published from India.
This tweet raised my eyebrows, as the word, 'Braveheart' has been the Indian media's cliche for a rape victim. I searched the major dictionries and the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
There was no word called Braveheart in any of the dictionaries. At least officially! And there is no reference in the Online Etymology Dictionary. "Braveheart may now be used allusively to encapsulate a view of Scottish nationalism maintained against English oppression," says Encyclopedia.com
There was Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995. I remember the hype on the glossy mags and television. I did not watch that movie.
To impose a non-existing word on the media audience is a crime.
This tweet raised my eyebrows, as the word, 'Braveheart' has been the Indian media's cliche for a rape victim. I searched the major dictionries and the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
There was no word called Braveheart in any of the dictionaries. At least officially! And there is no reference in the Online Etymology Dictionary. "Braveheart may now be used allusively to encapsulate a view of Scottish nationalism maintained against English oppression," says Encyclopedia.com
To impose a non-existing word on the media audience is a crime.
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