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# they're synonymous and you know it
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:15, archived)
# No they aren't.
Jealousy implies the desire that the current possessor of a good thing should not possess it any more - preferably by handing it to the jealous person. Envy implies that the envious person would be satisfied with having his own, similar, good thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:17, archived)
# Prescribe all you want
people use them synonymously, so they're synonymous
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:21, archived)
# a lot of people us "pacific" when they mean "specific" that doesn't make them synonymous does is it?
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:23, archived)
# Nicely put.
A lot of people really should have their mouths surgically sealed.

With that cheery thought, I'm off home.

Have a good weekend, folks!
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:24, archived)
# I doubt enough people do that to cause an actual lexical change
There's stupidity and there's accepted merging/streamlining
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:30, archived)
# i'd argue confusing jealousy and envy is stupidity as well.
they describe utterly different emotions.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:33, archived)
# *prescribes*
*proscribes as well, for good measure*
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:23, archived)
# Ah but people also use them not synonymously,
so they're also not synonymous. AT THE SAME TIME.
WB Zaarlon you dirty reposter
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:31, archived)
# Yep.
And, shockingly, both the parties that use them synonymously and the parties that don't are able to understand each other! Wow! It's like we're all smart human beings capable of understanding what people mean when they talk wi- HEY YOU THERE! I SEE YOU ENDING A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION! THEY'RE PREPOSITIONS, NOT POSTPOSITIONS! OH GOD LANGUAGE GETS ME SO MAD
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:40, archived)
# you are jealous of what you have
you envy what you others have

its the only thing that really grates on e
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Fri 1 May 2009, 16:19, archived)