Those are catchy! Of course none of those is an explanation that most people can use—the inferential distance is pretty big—but they’d make great sound-bite segues to a slightly longer explanation.
If you just hit someone with a zinger like that, it’ll feel to them that you’re just scoring points, and they might get annoyed; but if you use it as the start of a discussion, that’s likely to be perceived as more respectful.
Those are catchy! Of course none of those is an explanation that most people can use—the inferential distance is pretty big—but they’d make great sound-bite segues to a slightly longer explanation.
If you just hit someone with a zinger like that, it’ll feel to them that you’re just scoring points, and they might get annoyed; but if you use it as the start of a discussion, that’s likely to be perceived as more respectful.