What do you think of people who say "same difference"?
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I've got no problem with them at all, so long as they use this idiom correctly.\n\n"Same difference" --the slang idiom from the 1940s-- is simply a very effective retort when you want to dismiss a distinction someone is trying go make that you think is silly or insignificant.  It amounts to "it's the same thing, there's no difference".  In fact, it likely is simply a shortened version of just that sort of statement.\n\nIf people understand what you mean by it (they should!) and it makes it's point very effectively (not just stating a fact but suggesting "who cares?"/"so what?") I think it's a fine and useful expression.  \n\nFrankly, I prefer it to its modern day equivalent --"whatever"!  (That one, by the way, I think is also probably a shortened form of "whatever you say", used as a patronizing dismissal of what the person actually IS saying.)\n\n(General observation:  I think the complaint about this sort of expression misunderstands how language works.  It is much like that complaint against the double negative, though such forms work very nicely and serve a very useful purpose in many languages.  We sometimes get this notion that language is nothing more than logic; that we are simply adding pieces together, like a mathematical formula.  But it's NOT mathematics.  We express much MORE than simple facts.  To begin with we express emotion and emotion -- how we FEEL about the fact and about the person we're speaking to...)
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It's kind of like the difference in the glass is half-empty or the glass is half-full. Some folks prefer to express themselves in terms of differences. Other people choose similarities. \n\nLogically if two things are the same then they have the same differences from everything that is not the objects under question. So the "same thing" must have the "same difference[s]".
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everyone on here is basically saying the same thing and they are right.  however if you are asking this you may still be unclear so i will give you some examples.\nRace: Caucasian\nCulture/Ethnic Group is Italian\nThey have the same racial background as other Caucasian but there beliefs on family, food and living are different because of their culture.  they celebrate different holidays or the same holidays in different ways.  Racially they are the same as French, English or White Americans but they have a different set of traditions
1037601
Same thing with different way.
1121586
As long as people and groups of people strive to be different and are recognized for differences, we will never be equal.  In essence, people cannot be different but equal.  Now, the question is, if we were to break down all differences in the name of equality so that we'd all be the same, would we still be human?
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i think they are the same as other people\nsome are nice, some are annoying\nabout the way they dress, i dont really care\npeople have different tastes, so i respect them\ni have some goth friends, they just like my other friends, same topic, same food, etc, just different looks =)
1060935
now aren't they really the same thing???
837832
no\nthey are not the same
97436
Not weird, but a bit clumsy.  Better ways to express the same sentiment are:  "Aren't you convinced that we strongly resemble each other."  OR  "We really look very much the same.  Don't we?"
875673
Same s***, different day....sort of like a broken record.....or along the lines of if you tell people the same thing enough times they'll eventually believe you.....but not all people...thank God.
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think what was meant was..\ndo people all see things the same\nand i would say no\nwhat something looks like to me could probably and probably is seen completely different to you.  you probably see colors i could never imagine, and vice versa.
736275
No, they are the same.
314451
Cool.\nHopefully it's to the same person, right?
507450
There's a difference?
657007
The same as : Isn't it half good".\n\nMeans you're more or less ok as a person.
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Not at all...after the fact, there might be some similarities, but never before.\n\nI too, have a lot of similarities to what's said about my sign, as is my friend who has the same birthday. I think our differences are bc of nature and nurture.\n\nI say just use common sense. And how can anyone issue a general statement about a group of people and have it hit dead on every one? Doesn't happen.
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good-they are people just like everybody else in the world\n\nbad- they are people, just like everybody else in the world.\n\ngot it, friend.