Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Tuesday, 30th October 2012, 19:06
Proposal: Crushing like a grape?
"Crush" is to pulverize into powder, grind or pulverize between two objects as to cause breakage of brittle parts. Grapes aren't "breakable" or "pulverizable" being a squishy thing.
The thing you do to a grape is called squishing, when you use a simile, for instance "You crush the <death yak> like a grape!" it has to use a verb which is applicable to the object.
I suggest that that message should be "You squish the <death yak> like a grape!" or "You smash the <death yak> like a grape!" or "You crush the <death yak> like <some thing that's particularly crushable>!"
"Smash" being the verb which can only refer to the action (hitting something with force) is at least non-specific and generic enough to apply to things which are either crushable or squashable (Smash being my second choice after squish, mainly because grapes aren't really any more smashable than anything else).