yeah - there's a lot of ambiguity to it - and I'm not even consistent every time I use that phrase. Sometimes it's "if i were the type of person you are" - sometimes it's "if i were me, and in your position" which are almost the exact opposite.
― sarahel, Monday, 30 November 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it means 2 different things depending on context words and phrases will do that
1) attempts to acknowledge that this person "you" has different thought processes or goals or dreams or biochemistry and thus would make alien but ~understandable~ choices to the "i" in question
2) is more straightforwardly an assertion of control of this "you"'s destiny i.e. if "i" were making your choices as i understand your choices to be then
ive never felt the phrase to b ambiguous just threatening
― ‹◦‗‗‗‗‗•› (Lamp), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
In "If I were the type of person you are" situations, I tend to use "if I were in her shoes..."In "If were me, and in your position" situations, I tend to use the good ol' "If I were you".
I'm definitely not saying that's right (or wrong), that's just what I do is all.
― big darn deal (Z S), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
decipher, please:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ibrtEQEAKs
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link