DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoEverybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.message-squaremessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down130
arrow-up194arrow-down1message-squareEverybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square120fedilink
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down11·8 hours agoAh quoting. All of the authority with none of the responsibility.
minus-squarebitcrafter@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 hours ago Good writers borrow, great writers steal. -T.S. Elliot
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·6 hours agoNeither of which is the act of quoting.
minus-squarebitcrafter@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoOn the contrary, quoting is exactly the act of borrowing another’s idea, but doing the courtesy of giving credit to the person from whom you borrowed it.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·6 hours agoOn the contrary A borrowed idea stands on utility. A quote stands on authority.
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoIf you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.
minus-squarebitcrafter@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours 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-up1arrow-down3·5 hours agoYou are totally standing on that famous name.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoQuotation isn’t high art perhaps, but it sure beats bickering pointlessly. What the hell lol
Ah quoting. All of the authority with none of the responsibility.
Neither of which is the act of quoting.
On the contrary, quoting is exactly the act of borrowing another’s idea, but doing the courtesy of giving credit to the person from whom you borrowed it.
On the contrary
A borrowed idea stands on utility.
A quote stands on authority.
If you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.
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
I’m laying down actually
Choose another tool.