DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoEverybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down12
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareEverybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoOn the contrary A borrowed idea stands on utility. A quote stands on authority.
minus-squarebitcrafter@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYou are totally standing on that famous name.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoQuotation isn’t high art perhaps, but it sure beats bickering pointlessly. What the hell lol
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoIf you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoWhich is more important to you, the phrase or the credit?
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoUh, what? I’ll use a quote when it neatly captures what I was thinking, and credit it to the original author. The phrase is the important part I guess, but fair play to the author.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIs the phrase diminished if you leave out the author’s name?
On the contrary
A borrowed idea stands on utility.
A quote stands on authority.
I was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.
You are totally standing on that famous name.
Quotation isn’t high art perhaps, but it sure beats bickering pointlessly. What the hell lol
If you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.
Which is more important to you, the phrase or the credit?
Uh, what? I’ll use a quote when it neatly captures what I was thinking, and credit it to the original author. The phrase is the important part I guess, but fair play to the author.
Is the phrase diminished if you leave out the author’s name?