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   From: swallowyourear@yahoo.com   
      
   Kenito Benito wrote:   
   > On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 03:45:57 -0600, Elihu Crucifier   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >>>> Actually, I just looked for an attested usage like this,   
   >>>> and couldn't find anything.  "Pretend to" is in Shakespeare,   
   >>>> but more about things like laying claim to a domain.   
   >>>   
   >>>        I'm not as well versed in Shakespeare as I could be. Please cite   
   >>> where he used the term, "pretend to Ohio" in his writings. I seriously   
   >>> doubt Ohio was something he ever thought about.   
   >>>        A search comes up with some guys in Poland who made a role   
   >>> playing event wherein people pretended to be Americans. Since I have   
   >>> no connection with them, you can't be referencing that.   
   >>>        Adding "Shakespeare" to the search brings up links about the Ohio   
   >>> Shakespeare Festival. Also not what you could have meant, since I have   
   >>> no connection to it.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> I don't think I can pretend to be any state.   
   >>>>>>        Maybe that super education you try, and consistently fail, to   
   >>>>>> present was ineffective and you intended something else?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Still, he was understood, and that's how communication works.   
   >>>   
   >>>        Maybe Shakespeare was. You, however, were not. And you're still   
   >>> not.   
   >>>   
   >>>> He wrote it, you understood it, and (postmodern deconstruction   
   >>>> being dead and buried), there's nothing more to say about it   
   >>>> except you're being pedantic about a post on (of all things)   
   >>>> Usenet.   
   >>>   
   >>>        You still having explained how someone can pretend to be a state.   
   >>>   
   >> It turns out that you cannot.   
   >   
   >       So you lied. Got it.   
      
   Your problem is you have poor communication skills. People don't speak   
   in one-liners like Superman.   
      
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