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[Tzivia Adler]

> Interesting comment. I wonder if this is a connotation that is stronger in 
> the US than in Canada.
> Not to say I don't believe you, just that this isn't exactly the usage I'm 
> accustomed to.
>
> I regularly talk about 'my ex-boss' or 'my former boss' with just about 
> the same connotations. I
> don't think of calling the man I divorced 'my former husband' because I 
> think of ex-husband as a
> sort of legal term; if I talk about 'a former friend' I have exactly the 
> same feeling as if I were
> talking about an ex-friend.
>
> namaste,
> Elizabeth
>
in this case, a 'former' friend would be someone who moved away, or with 
whom you gradually lost touch but still remember fondly.
an 'ex' friend would be someone with whom the frindship ended with major 
fights and people running screaming into the night.
does that help explain the difference?

ziviya, mildly entertained at the way in which language only seems to be teh 
same thing.