What is the difference between an "insipid question" and a "tedious question"?

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What is the difference between an "insipid question" and a "tedious question"?

I am pretty sure this is a continuation of a recent theme of threads.  Now, I must admit that English is my primary language but thought it important to ask anyway.  I will use your answers to develop an astonishingly astute and perspicuous post later.

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Well played, Nero.

Well played, Nero.


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A question that is insipid

A question that is insipid is one that is lacking anything interesting from the first asking. A tedious question could be one that is initially worth asking but after 500 different people ask the same question it becomes ... well ... tedious.


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jcgadfly wrote: Well

jcgadfly wrote:
Well played, Nero.

Thank you.


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HIGH FIVE!

HIGH FIVE!


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I think the difference lies

I think the difference lies somewhere between 'ineffectual' and 'lame'.


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I have been provided an

I have been provided an answer in another thread, recently written.  It is: Nothing.  Both end in the same pathetic line of logic and begin with unsound assumptions.  Nice.

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