On 19 April 2012 15:22, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Charles Matthews wrote: > >> If someone tells you to drive at 5 miles under the speed limit rather than >>> to drive at the speed limit, he may be trying to keep you from getting >>> too >>> close to a line. >>> >>> If someone tells you *not to drive at all* rather than to drive at the >>> speed >>> limit, that no longer has anything to do with "getting close to a line". >>> He's just making up his own rules. >>> >> Or he may have noticed that you are off your face or otherwise not fit to >> drive, and is applying common sense. Good metaphor. >> > > If I'm not fit to drive, he can tell me "you're not fit to drive." > Claiming > that it's because it has anything to do with getting close to the line is a > lie. > > And the analogy doesn't work with drunkenness because there's no conscious > action you can do if you're drunk that will make you fit to drive. The > analogy would require that he thinks I'm unfit to drive because I never > learned how to drive, but he ignores that I passed the driving test.
In fact this analogy could work in the context of learner drivers; for whom advising caution as they start out is a good thing! :) Same applies to any newbie Wikipedian. Tom _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l