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Mitt Romney Impersonated a Policeman and Stopped Drivers

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Killgore Trout6/07/2012 12:09:13 pm PDT

re: #96 erik_t

If I, as a non-expert on police regalia, saw someone dressed like a police officer but that I later found was not an actual cop, I would likely describe their dress as ‘similar to that worn by a police officer’. It would be my assumption that they didn’t actually have a real uniform, and this would influence my language.

It’s hard to put an upper bound on the definition of the word ‘similar’. I don’t think you can draw an exact conclusion from this one way or the other.

Agreed. It might have been a real uniform but it wasn’t that long ago that plastic badges, fake caps, and flashing “police” lights were available in novelty shops along with the plastic dog poop.