Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoChuck Schumer indeed sucks, but it concerns me that nobody is asking why Peter Thiel's mouthpiece is the Dem leading calls for him to step down.sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1324arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1318arrow-down1imageChuck Schumer indeed sucks, but it concerns me that nobody is asking why Peter Thiel's mouthpiece is the Dem leading calls for him to step down.sh.itjust.worksBasic Glitch@sh.itjust.works to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square37linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareBlackVenom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 months agoFwiw… If an oceans worth of salt, that means there’s a lot of substance to be considered (seasoned). It’s “grain of salt” because there’s not a lot to it (to be seasoned).
minus-squareKokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agothe more you know
minus-squarechaogomu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoExcept that salt negates bitter flavors. So if you have a bitter pill to swallow, you take it with a grain of salt and it isn’t as bad. Thiel is involved in shit so bitter that it would take an ocean’s worth of salt to swallow.
minus-squareTheLowestStone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 months agoYou definitely lost the metaphor here. Salt does not negate or in any way cover bitter flavors.
minus-squarechaogomu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoYou obviously don’t know how salt works. https://www.nature.com/articles/42388 Besides, the actual origin of “take with a grain of salt” comes from Pliny the Elder, who believed salt to be part of a cure for poison. His actual words were “addito salis grano” or add a grain of salt. He believed this because salt suppresses bitter flavors and most poisonous things taste fairly bitter. The phase “cum grano salis” or with a grain of salt, then entered latin, and eventually a few other languages.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoIt seems like the prevailing theory is that it’s a Latin pun where “salis” means both salt and wit/intelligence/sense. More “salt” would be more “sense”.
Fwiw…
If an oceans worth of salt, that means there’s a lot of substance to be considered (seasoned).
It’s “grain of salt” because there’s not a lot to it (to be seasoned).
the more you know
Except that salt negates bitter flavors. So if you have a bitter pill to swallow, you take it with a grain of salt and it isn’t as bad.
Thiel is involved in shit so bitter that it would take an ocean’s worth of salt to swallow.
You definitely lost the metaphor here. Salt does not negate or in any way cover bitter flavors.
You obviously don’t know how salt works.
https://www.nature.com/articles/42388
Besides, the actual origin of “take with a grain of salt” comes from Pliny the Elder, who believed salt to be part of a cure for poison.
His actual words were “addito salis grano” or add a grain of salt.
He believed this because salt suppresses bitter flavors and most poisonous things taste fairly bitter.
The phase “cum grano salis” or with a grain of salt, then entered latin, and eventually a few other languages.
It seems like the prevailing theory is that it’s a Latin pun where “salis” means both salt and wit/intelligence/sense.
More “salt” would be more “sense”.