Auction of our cricket players!
A few days ago a local TV channel was telecasting live the players' auction of the second edition of Bangladesh Premiere League T-20. The person anchoring the event was frequently using words like "this player is sold at the price of this amount, that payer is sold at that amount," etc., and the players who were not hired by any team were termed as 'unsold'. The programme in which the players were being hired was titled 'auction'.
In the past when there was slavery, people were 'sold' as slaves in auctions or in open markets at different prices. The slaves who could not be sold were termed as 'unsold slaves' by the owners of the slaves.
Could not they use the words 'hired' instead of 'sold'; 'not hired' instead of 'unsold'; and 'hiring' instead of 'auction' preferring positive terms to negative or primitive expressions?
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