darhorn opened this issue on Jun 06, 2006 · 64 posts
mickmca posted Sat, 22 July 2006 at 11:33 AM
Do you own a dictionary? Look-up ambiguous. Then look-up insipid!
Perhaps you should look up "look-up"? And then you might consider whether i said "ambiguous" out of politeness rather than illiteracy. Then you might think (did they talk about thinking at your school?) about the inherent contradiction between "insipid" and "ugly."
Of course, you are using the word "insipid" so inappropriately I can't tell if you mean to slam my comment or Jessi's looks. And that's not "ambiguity," it's incoherence. As for my previous reference to ambiguity, let me spell it out: "The ugliest thing I've ever seen" could be serve as a measure of the thing's ugliness or of the limitations of your experience. If Jessi really is the ugliest thing you've ever seen, you should try to get out more. Bookworms and pedants never get to smell the roses.
Oh, and not only do I own a dictionary, I was a second-string SME for the first edition of the American Heritage. Be careful what snake you jab.
M