Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!colt.net!news.nl.colt.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I'm Usama bin Laden, and I approved this message Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:23:12 -0500 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2ur190F2djf60U9@uni-berlin.de> References: <2ugkg5F291po5U12@uni-berlin.de> <2uhs2lF2a4uuhU1@uni-berlin.de> <96d9o0hpc3thrblselr1k3jaamc8gvm7pp@4ax.com> <2ujvrhF29vv1bU1@uni-berlin.de> <2uk6qpF291po5U31@uni-berlin.de> <2uk8f0F2ahsbqU1@uni-berlin.de> <2uk915F291po5U38@uni-berlin.de> <2uk9k7F2boimnU1@uni-berlin.de> <2ukak9F291po5U41@uni-berlin.de> <41850472$0$24982$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> <2ulh05F291po5U51@uni-berlin.de> <4185f549$0$3612$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> <2uoevtF2b2i1lU5@uni-berlin.de> <418751d4$0$3568$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> <2uqt97F2djf60U2@uni-berlin.de> <418849C9.5050702@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 6kWWQfOHuDbIsTLYimGxbwBkBc+EqPTOF8Tn7gK4s61WqHpmFd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <418849C9.5050702@yahoo.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20895 John W. wrote: > Kevin Gowen wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the history lesson, but they still aren't synonyms. They >> aren't even the same part of speech. We cannot say, "Better to be >> terrored" >> > Right. But they are both the same part of speech [sic]. And according to > Websters fear is a synonym of terror. Certainly they might be used in > different ways; but a synonym doesn't have to be a perfect match; again, > perhaps you're just not familiar with the term and how it's defined by > most of society but you. Maybe you should practice looking things up. > IIRC you used to be fond of telling people to do that. You ought to look up how to use [sic]. - Kevin