Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 2001/02
From: "redcedar" <redcedar@-----.au> Subj: RE: [kl] My two cents Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:59:10 -0500
Tony Pay wrote:
"I often see here the phrase: 'Just my two cents'. What I *think* this
means, is: "This is my contribution. It may not be much, and it may even be
wrong; but it's real -- I've thought about it, and I'd defend its reality."
Perhaps another take is that it is self-deprecatory, even disingenuous, with
the contributor supremely confident of what they write.
"...a 'two-cents fact', or proto-argument, can completely change our view of
a situation in a way that a two-cent *opinion* can't."
The converse is surely the basis of politics and the advertising scrum?
My two-bob's worth.
Michael
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