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Subject: Re: [OT] What does IMHO means?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 09:37:05 03/04/04

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On March 04, 2004 at 11:35:59, Roberto Nerici wrote:

>On March 04, 2004 at 09:02:35, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On March 04, 2004 at 08:46:59, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On March 04, 2004 at 03:17:53, milix wrote:
>>>
>>>>?
>>>
>>>
>>>I always use IMO.
>>>
>>>IMO, if use IMHO, it implies that you may sometimes not give an "honest"
>>>opinion.
>>>
>>>I just have one opinion - sometimes I change it and it may be wrong - but I only
>>>have one.  No need to differentiate, IMO.
>>>
>>>I know it's just a figure of speach, but it's one I avoid using.
>>
>>I always translated IMHO to "in my humble opinion", so I don't have this
>>problem. YMMV :)
>
>I've always taken it to mean In My Humble Opinion too. I didn't know about
>"honest". Now I'll be wondering every time I see it, which one the author
>meant...
>
>Roberto/.

now that I have  researched it ;>)

"in my honest opinion"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22in+my+honest+opinion%22&btnG=Google+Search

13100 hits

"in my humble opinion"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22in+my+humble+opinion%22&btnG=Google+Search

167000 hits

it's "humble" imo  ... I'm still not using IMHO




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