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Actually, they would suffer from dehydration

i don't think so, if we're talking about salt intake it rarely causes hypernatremia and dehydratation (it can occur, but salt poisoning is very rare and mostly found in infants, who cannot ask for water). If your kidneys work properly and you drink a normal amount of water (not sea water) excessive salt intake will just result in high blood pressure

Bro, it was just a pun from my side, as I thought you might refer to "salty"

Yeah, i was referring to that, also mine was a pun, but what do we actually mean by the expression being salty? If being salty is having high amount of salt in the bloodstream then it is indeed accompained with dehydratation, but its mostly caused by not drinking enough, drinking sea water or kidney failure. If being salty means a big salt intake then the consequence is high blood pressure.

Now if we say that Faravin is salty (just an example, not calling out names), do you image him having a kidney failure/not drinking enough, o eating a bucket of salt? Personally i imagine the second.

Sorry for the medical ramble about salt, i didn't expect the discussion coming to this, but hey, you dragged it to the biological plan

Didn't think about that in detail. Wanted to do a pun between salty=angry and salt=mineral/salty=a lot of salt xD

Ok, but when you say a lot of salt, what are you referring to exactly? That's the point. If you say a salty person is dehydratated then you're making a pun only if you assume the salty person has hypernatremia. In that case your pun is not biologically coherent.

But i've dug further into the matter, and i've come to the conclusion that we were both wrong. The expression being salty as to mean being bitter, angry, or upset seems to take origin from the fact that tears are salty. An angry gamer is salty because he's crying salty tears. Now when we say "a person is really salty" biologically he's losing salt, because he's letting salt out through tears, which is quite the oppsite of suffering from dehydratation/hypernatremia. But being salty is neither eating a bucket of salt, so my pun was also incorrect. If we bring the things to an extreme we can compare the salt loss from crying a huge lot to the extreme sweating that causes salt loss in the so called exercise-associated hyponatremia: in this scenario the salty games who cries a lot will most likely suffer from limb swelling, pulmunar edema and encephalopathy.

So to put an end to the matter, if you want to make a biologically correct pun about someone being salty you have to imply symptoms similar to an exercise-associated hyponatremia

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