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Jean Marie

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/əˈpɪn
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n] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1.a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. 2.a personal view, attitude, or appraisal. 3.the formal expression of a professional judgment: to ask for a second medical opinion. 4.Law. the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case. 5.a judgment or estimate of a person or thing with respect to character, merit, etc.: to forfeit someone's good opinion. 6.a favorable estimate; esteem: I haven't much of an opinion of him.

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fact

noun
1. a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"
2. a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"
3. an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
4. a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
 
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Like anyone's going to give credence to such a biased source.
 

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Jean...2001? This is 2007! Get something a little more up to date!!

<shakes head>

;)

Speaking of 2001, wasn't that the year that the phrase "Ground Zero" changed to indicate the place of a non-nuclear event instead of a nuclear one?
 

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Speaking of 2001, wasn't that the year that the phrase "Ground Zero" changed to indicate the place of a non-nuclear event instead of a nuclear one?

Ask Jean....she's the one using the old dictionary.
 

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In my opinion, your fact is wrong.

Or maybe, It's a fact that your opinion is wrong.

Yeah, definitely the second one. ;)
 

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I do think that people use the words "opinion" and "fact" interchangeably, when they shouldn't.
 

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Opinions are not facts, and are neither right or wrong. Opinions are based on personally held beliefs. Beliefs, however, can be wrong (don't ask how I know).
 

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yən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-pin-yuh
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n] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1.a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. 2.a personal view, attitude, or appraisal. 3.the formal expression of a professional judgment: to ask for a second medical opinion. 4.Law. the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case. 5.a judgment or estimate of a person or thing with respect to character, merit, etc.: to forfeit someone's good opinion. 6.a favorable estimate; esteem: I haven't much of an opinion of him"

Definition 1 pretty well quashes definition 4. And when I serve as an expert witness, I am asked in standard questioning: " Is it your opinion...." followed by "Are you qualified to have that opinion? ". Hmm that's a lot of overturned cases according to this dafynition.
 

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You guys suck (that's da fak, jak)
 

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That's the fact Jack!