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cool_walking_:
Yeah I figured, but I've seen a few instances of this, and they don't seem to take it that way, since they always reply in the manner of "What?? Me? I can't do THAT!"
Considering the sentence prior to it, I took busta5000's comment about who's supposed to be cooking at the restaurant as simply talking about skills.
Llorean:
I personally find it hard to read as just about knowledge when he's made it clear he thinks we're professionals at this, when nobody is being paid to do it, and he's not talking about who knows how to do a task, but in his own words, who's "suppose[d]" to do a task in a given situation.
Especially given that you yourself mentioned you consider cooking a basic life skill, in which case at a restaurant both the customer and the cook are able to perform the task (have the knowledge) so it's only a matter of "whose job is it" rather than "who knows how" in his analogy. Given that, what about his statement said "people at a restaurant don't know how to cook" (which would be pretty much necessary were it merely about knowledge)?
But I really think the key point is the idea of who's supposed to do it. Just having superior knowledge of a matter never means you're supposed to be the one who makes use of that knowledge merely because others want to benefit from it.
On the other hand, nobody's saying *he's* supposed to do it. The point was that the only way to guarantee it gets done is to be the one who does it.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on June 07, 2008, 10:57:42 PM ---Yeah I figured,
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Then you should not have said otherwise.
cool_walking_:
--- Quote from: Llorean on June 07, 2008, 11:04:59 PM ---I personally find it hard to read as just about knowledge when he's made it clear he thinks we're professionals at this, when nobody is being paid to do it, and he's not talking about who knows how to do a task, but in his own words, who's "suppose[d]" to do a task in a given situation.
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As far as I know, "professional" doesn't always mean "someone getting paid", it can just mean "an expert" i.e. one that does something "at a professional level".
--- Quote ---Especially given that you yourself mentioned you consider cooking a basic life skill, in which case at a restaurant both the customer and the cook are able to perform the task (have the knowledge) so it's only a matter of "whose job is it" rather than "who knows how" in his analogy. Given that, what about his statement said "people at a restaurant don't know how to cook" (which would be pretty much necessary were it merely about knowledge)?
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The cook is (presumably) much better at cooking.
--- Quote ---But I really think the key point is the idea of who's supposed to do it. Just having superior knowledge of a matter never means you're supposed to be the one who makes use of that knowledge merely because others want to benefit from it.
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Of course not.
--- Quote ---On the other hand, nobody's saying *he's* supposed to do it. The point was that the only way to guarantee it gets done is to be the one who does it.
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Alrighty then.
I guess I forgave the supposing of the cook since I thought it was just a follow-on from the previous sentence, and a bad example.
@ saratoga: well, I wasn't completely sure.
AlexP:
I am going to lock this again, as it has got even more pointless. I would suggest some people ought to check a dictionary for the definition of "analogy"
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