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Originally Posted by hrosvit
No, what I said was that this discussion already had a pretty focused topic: "this entire thread started out as a discussion of books and social networking sites. It had absolutely nothing to do with publishing." The concept of "publishing = recommendation" was not part of that specific topic until you inserted it, and then used it to say that I was incorrect.
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"It" (emphasis mine) seems to be referring to the discussion on books and social networking sites. If you say that "it" has absolutely nothing to do with publishing, then you are saying that there is no connection between a discussion about books and publishing.
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Originally Posted by hrosvit
I guess I could similarly say that my parents implicitly recommended books written in English to me by settling in an English speaking country and sending me to school, where I was taught to read and write in English, rather than some other language. These subtle types of recommendations continue to pop up.
You can choose to cherry-pick words from my phrases if you wish.
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I don't know about your school, but at mine the recommendation to read was not subtle.