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!passion.nalgo.co.jp!news.moat.net!news.zanker.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I'm Usama bin Laden, and I approved this message Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:00:25 -0600 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <418849C9.5050702@yahoo.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Tx3AVXjSXGNNACsnLb7MxgbemSDB8XPHuOUyVMJ5MTeqz1Krpj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20890 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. John W.