Booth's Mental health

[Susan Higginbotham]

(07-23-2015 07:25 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(07-23-2015 04:45 PM)Rosieo Wrote:  

(07-23-2015 04:22 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Thanks, Rosieo. I have "Fortune's Fool" and also had the great pleasure to hear Prof. Alford speaking on his book this past March (and, please allow me to remark, perceived calling his work and research "his stuff" as disrespectful).

I am truly sorry the discussion and facing other viewpoints stressed you. By some wordings I felt "invited" to discuss. And truth to be told (perhaps a cultural issue?), parlance at times stressed me, too.

I am sorry, Eva Elisabeth, I am not sure I understand what you have written here. Are you calling me disrespectful and saying I made you feel stressed?

I said to me it sounds disrespectful to call a scholar's well-researched work "his stuff". Maybe this perception originates in cultural differences, it would not be appropriate in German/y, and reading such just shocked me. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said - "Language is the source of misunderstandings".

In American parlance, saying that a scholar "knows his stuff" (i.e., his subject) is a compliment.