If you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.
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DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 4 weeks agoOn the contrary
A borrowed idea stands on utility.
A quote stands on authority.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Which is more important to you, the phrase or the credit?
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
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.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Is the phrase diminished if you leave out the author’s name?
bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
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.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
You are totally standing on that famous name.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Quotation isn’t high art perhaps, but it sure beats bickering pointlessly. What the hell lol
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m laying down actually
bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Okay, fair enough, you got me: I wrote his name on a piece of paper and was standing on it when I wrote that comment in order to absorb his authority. You win this Internet argument.