Posted by Lou Pilder on April 23, 2005, at 21:12:00
In reply to Re: OK, but may I please have an answer » Dr. Bob, posted by Minnie-Haha on April 23, 2005, at 20:35:50
It has been written in this thread that I requested that Dr. Hsiung write a determination as to the acceptability or not in relation to the guidlines of the forum as to the use of the idiom in,[...please take anything that dancingstar says with a grain of salt...].
I requested the determination because I was wondering if it is acceptable on this forum for one poster to tell another to please take {anything} that another poster says with a grain of salt.
Now if we replace dancingstar with , lets say, Dr. Hsiung, we would have the following:
[...please take anything that Dr. Hsiung says with a grain of salt...]. Now if the statement was,[...please take what Dr. Hsiung says about skydiving with a grain of salt...], then I could not be interested in if that could be an acceptable statement here or not because Dr. Hsiung is not a recognised expert, as far as I know, on skydiving. But when the {anything} is used, then I feel that that is different.
So when the idiom was used in the post in question, the {anything} was used. So if the post read, [...please take what dancingstar says about The History of the Art and Architechture of the Near East and Mesopotamia with a grain of salt, I do not know if dancingstar is an expert in that field so that is different.
Now if the statement was, [...please take anything that Lou says with a grain of salt...], then that wording, IMO, could have the potential to defame me. So my request to DR. Hsiung was because if it is acceptable here to write that about dancingstar, then could it also be acceptable to write that here about me?
Lou
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