It makes me cringe when restaurant waiters say ‘Enjoy!’ with no reference to the object, though when I feel charitable I reflect that they may just have been abbreviating ’Enjoy your meal!’
However there is no charitable interpretation of injunctions such as ’X is hurting’ said by people who mean that X is suffering.
I recently heard President Obama say that he knew people were hurting. 'Whom are they hurting, and why?' I should have liked to ask him. I suspect he wouldn’t have understood the question.
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