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Old April 18, 2013, 02:47 PM   #24
Brian Pfleuger
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You have an interesting spin on words, Jim, I'll give you that.

Misusing the words in ways that are not legally binding does not mean that the courts will not expect those words to have meaning.

Identical:
Function: Adjective
Similar in every detail; exactly alike: "girls in identical outfits".
exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats" [syn: indistinguishable]
eing the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: one and the same(p), selfsame(a), very(a)]

A forgery looks similar but it is not identical. If it were, it wouldn't be a forgery, since two different people can not do ANYTHING "identical". Even the same person can't be identical.

Similar is not identical.

The lack of being able to be "identical" doesn't somehow change the word to mean "anything sort of the same but not quite". It means there IS NO identical.

The word doesn't change to fit the circumstance. If the circumstance doesn't match the word, you use a different word.

No other ammunition is "identical" to BT. That doesn't make all ammunition fit the description of identical. It makes NO other ammunition fit.
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