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I don't quite read it that way, it seems more like "take this with a grain of salt". But I suppose it depends on who's saying it.


True. If I say it, it’s normally the grain of salt meaning. But I don’t copy/paste answers, I restate my understanding of what it said, and try and change my tone accordingly.

The people who repeat/paste it verbatim tend to see it as an authority, from what I’ve seen.




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