Don Draper Was a Renegade

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Get it together Africa.

It’s no surprise why our generation is so retarded: look no further then our world leaders, who clearly are NOT leading. Earlier this week, an award committee in Africa decided not to give out a multi-million dollar award for good leadership, in the absence of worthy candidates (link). As a strongman sympathizer, I would have just donated the money to the Hugo “Bush is the Devil” Chavez Facebook Fan Club.

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The difference between assume and presume?

In many contexts when the meaning is 'to suppose', the two words are interchangeable: e.g. I assume/presume you are coming to the party. But, as the Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University Press, 1999) points out, 'Fowler (1926) maintained that there is a stronger element of postulation or hypothesis in assume and of a belief held on the basis of external evidence in presume.' The Oxford English Dictionary definitions are very similar. Assume is 'to take for granted as the basis of argument or action'; presume is 'to take for granted, to presuppose, to count upon'. There is a faint suggestion of presumptuousness about presume.

The New Oxford Dictionary of English which is based on recent usage evidence, provides these definitions:

assume suppose to be the case, without proof.
presume suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case.