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Thread #55787   Message #869468
Posted By: Amos
18-Jan-03 - 10:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Which Word scores most in Thesaurus?
Subject: RE: BS: Which Word scores most in Thesaurus?
You could take this to mean that there is an awful lot of stupidity built in to the human species (which seems true anyway). Just as the Inuit have a LOT of snow to deal with.

But it might help brighten things up to keep in mind that every time someone uses one of those many terms for stupdiity, they have to be smart enough to recognize the stupidity in question, which implies there are more instances of people able to recognize it than of people committing it, since it takes a lot of agreement to make a word last.

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