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.
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.