Nobody Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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26. It is nevertheless a very common locution to "Win the Nobel Prize."

I have personally encountered Nobel Laureates in talks where they have been described as follows, "Richard Roberts won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993..." during the introduction.

Grammar policing against common locutions to steal a phrase from someone who died before the prize was even conceived is likely to be as successful as "railing against a thunderstorm" or as Abraham Lincoln put it in the same era "As effective as the Pope's bull against a climate."

In general all of humanity wins as a result of the work of Nobel Laureates, with some minor exceptions. I agree that nobody loses.

No one, I might add, is interviewed to win a baseball game, a card game, or for that matter, the lottery.

It is worthy of note that no one applies to win the lottery unless it involves buying a ticket.

I often kid with my son by telling him that Malala "won" the Nobel Prize when she was 17. Therefore at 26 he's late. Of course he'll only "win" if humanity wins by his actions.

I agree that no one "loses" a Nobel Prize, but this case is a function of having a complete idiot running a dying world power thinking he could apply for one, even demand one. I don't think that grammar policing should preclude us from the opportunity of calling the Orange Pedophile in the White House a "loser."

Normal human beings cannot lose the prize but highly prominent amoral narcissists can and should "lose" in a sense of their inflated self regard being exposed as such.

It's all a joke, not a particularly funny one, but a joke all the same.

If it's any consolation to grammar cops, the Nobel Prize committees refer to the prize as being "awarded," and the, um, "winners" as Laureates.