Posted by Lou Pilder on February 21, 2005, at 16:18:30
In reply to Re: Lou's request to Dr. Hsiung-~takserus?, posted by Minnie-Haha on February 21, 2005, at 15:18:20
M-H,
You wrote,[...I did not use the phrase to mean that what someone said was "poisonous", nor to mean that someone COULD NOT be taken seriously...].
When someone uses an idiom, since there could be many different meanings that people think the idiom means, I had requested from Dr. Hsiung to write a determination as to if the use of the idiom that you used in your post in relation to dancingstar could have the potential to be considerd as unacceptable in relation to the guidlines of the forum on the basis that what another poster here thought the idiom means, and what my understanding of the idiom means.
In your post , you wrote,[...Please,please take anything "dancingstar" says with a grain of salt...]. I am requesting that Dr. Hsiung use his thinking in determining if the gramattical structure , as he sees it, could have the potential to be unacceptable here since an idiom could have many understandings by different persons. I have a chemistry background and when I see that idiom, I think of the orginal use of it. Others could think that the idiom is saying other things, depending on their particular background and where they perhaps live.. But did not the poster, dancingstar, write that she felt that the idiom used toward her was in some way inappropriate?
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:461232
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