(June 3, 2013 at 12:45 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: No, if they were the same thing, another word wouldn't exist. But it's not the emotion people put behind it, but the word itself.
But you're just using one specific example here to suit your argument.
There are other sentences where a change of words do communicate a different emotion and/or different meanings.
Ex: "You are stupid" vs. "You are a psychopath." And it becomes worse if you add more insults after that.
Do you not think that different words convey different emotions?
