Am 15.07.2016 um 17:09 schrieb Stephen:
> On 7/15/2016 1:24 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 15.07.2016 um 13:42 schrieb Stephen:
>>> On 7/15/2016 12:24 PM, clipka wrote:
>>>> "The dumbest question is the one you don't ask."
>>>
>>> There are no dumb questions only dumb answers.
>>
>> That's what I was told as a kid, too, but pondering the above quote I
>> think it must be revised: You cannot /ask/ dumb questions -- but all the
>> questions you /don't/ ask are, indeed, kinda dumb.
>>
> 
> I must confess that I am wrong about dumb questions.
> The phrase I heard was there are no stupid questions. Dumb questions are
> a different matter entirely.
> 
> 
> I think that we are using "dumb" differently. When it is not about
> silence it is about reducing the intellectual contend. As in dumbing down.

AmE vs. BrE?

(Which brings me to the question, will that be AmE vs. EnE vs. ScE in
the future?)

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