Common doesn’t mean good dawg. Herpes is common, doesn’t mean I want it.
I understood what you meant. I understood you were trying to be witty. I just don’t think you were successful.
But hey, that’s just my subjective opinion. If you don’t agree, then by all means continue this pointless argument. I love a good low stakes pissing match.
Yeah no there’s no point here, I’m just feeling genuine shock. How the fuck are you living your day to day life thinking anyone using abstractions instead of spelling out every single idea is “trying to be witty”.
Being witty means using words in clever or funny way. Telling someone stop talking as to not waste oxygen is an obvious example of trying to put someone down with clever (witty) language.
Also, do you know what an abstraction is? Because calling someone dumb and a waste of oxygen isn’t one, I’m not even sure if it really counts as a metaphor even.
An abstraction is more or less a simplification of a more complex topic. The fuck were you simplifying?
The way its commonly used, the oxygen metaphor refers to the limited room for words in a conversation, its not referring to the oxygen people use to breath. The put down was that the opinion of someone with no relevent experience or knowledge was worthless in the context of people who have been to China, studied China, spoken with people living there, etc.
I see that you’ve completely sidestepped that you were in fact attempting to use witty language.
I could care less about you putting someone down, I only brought it up for context. The substance of the other person being knowledgeable or not is completely irrelevant here. You’re just bringing it up to deflect from the original point, that being your use of “the oxygen metaphor” was in fact an example of wit or wittiness.
My saying that this is a text based conversation and thus doesn’t require oxygen, was my attempt at wittiness. But unlike you I’m not going to attempt to deny it, nor do I particularly care whether it was a good or not.
And addressing the metaphor itself, it’s not a very good one here. One comment in one thread where everything is equally visible is hardly using up much the conversational oxygen or whatever you want to call it. It just reeks of whinging because you don’t like people having other opinions from you.
Also it’s breathe, not breath. Can you not read at a high-school level yet? Shouldn’t be throwing those stones in your glass house there.
Its a metaphor.
Not a very good one.
Its such a common metaphor either english isn’t your first language or you aren’t reading at a high-school level.
Common doesn’t mean good dawg. Herpes is common, doesn’t mean I want it.
I understood what you meant. I understood you were trying to be witty. I just don’t think you were successful.
But hey, that’s just my subjective opinion. If you don’t agree, then by all means continue this pointless argument. I love a good low stakes pissing match.
Yeah no there’s no point here, I’m just feeling genuine shock. How the fuck are you living your day to day life thinking anyone using abstractions instead of spelling out every single idea is “trying to be witty”.
Being witty means using words in clever or funny way. Telling someone stop talking as to not waste oxygen is an obvious example of trying to put someone down with clever (witty) language.
Also, do you know what an abstraction is? Because calling someone dumb and a waste of oxygen isn’t one, I’m not even sure if it really counts as a metaphor even.
An abstraction is more or less a simplification of a more complex topic. The fuck were you simplifying?
The way its commonly used, the oxygen metaphor refers to the limited room for words in a conversation, its not referring to the oxygen people use to breath. The put down was that the opinion of someone with no relevent experience or knowledge was worthless in the context of people who have been to China, studied China, spoken with people living there, etc.
I see that you’ve completely sidestepped that you were in fact attempting to use witty language.
I could care less about you putting someone down, I only brought it up for context. The substance of the other person being knowledgeable or not is completely irrelevant here. You’re just bringing it up to deflect from the original point, that being your use of “the oxygen metaphor” was in fact an example of wit or wittiness.
My saying that this is a text based conversation and thus doesn’t require oxygen, was my attempt at wittiness. But unlike you I’m not going to attempt to deny it, nor do I particularly care whether it was a good or not.
And addressing the metaphor itself, it’s not a very good one here. One comment in one thread where everything is equally visible is hardly using up much the conversational oxygen or whatever you want to call it. It just reeks of whinging because you don’t like people having other opinions from you.
Also it’s breathe, not breath. Can you not read at a high-school level yet? Shouldn’t be throwing those stones in your glass house there.