Re: I'm Usama bin Laden, and I approved this message
b wrote:
>>We cannot say, "Better to be terrored"
>
>
> another thing :
> maybe you were refering to the saying "better to be feared than loved".
> Yes, in this case "feared" is not a semantic equivalent of "terrorized".
> Different construction : one would have to change something in the
> sentence's construction (omission of "be") to convey the same meaning :
>
> "better to terrorize than to be loved"
>
> Another synonym of "fear" : fright
> better to be frightened
> better to frighten than to be loved
>
> Same for horror, horrify, be horrified
>
> and so on for other synonyms.
>
> That said, may I ask you how you use "sic", Kevin ?
There's more than one way?
- Kevin
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