10-16-2008, 10:20 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Fresno,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadsters, 351W -> 392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VRM
There is a difference between saying you are stupid and saying you look stupid. Jamo made use of that difference a couple of months ago when he said that someone was acting like a jackass rather than actually calling them a jackass (or whatever his term was).
Steve
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Semantics, and a bad interpretation of it despite.
"look" - is a statement of fact not a suggestion of behavior.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&d...ition&ct=title
Saying 'you look stupid,' has a far different meaning than 'you are acting stupidly.' They are not interchangeable.
It's all a manner of subjective opinion anyway. Welcome to my realm of the Ignore List.
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