Posted by Lou Pilder on March 27, 2005, at 20:58:48
In reply to Re: Lou's reply to 10derHeart-bgcheslimbrgr, posted by Dinah on March 27, 2005, at 20:36:36
Dinah,
Your first offered link at the end wrote that the idiom is not always considered complimentary and could be considered to have derisive undertones.
Not evryone thinks of idioms in all the same way. A poster here from France brought that up in the referrence to the idiom ,[....take with a grain of salt...]. I agree with that poster that it depends on how a person knows about what the idiom could be which they may have no knowlege of its origin or literary meaning. That is why I had requested that we make a determination as to acceptability hear for the use of idioms because people can understand the meaning of idioms in different ways. In this case, since we have a world-wide audiance, there could be people that perhaps think thsat the idiom in question is not complmentary. I do not favor the use of idioms in this mental-health setting because of the different possible interptreataions that others could think and the nature of the population of the community that we have to consider sensitivity.
Lou
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