Topic on User talk:Saline
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Let's see if I can parse this correctly without anyone taking offense:
"As far as I can tell, everyone is calm" - I'll take this as a performative speech act, not a declarative one. Thank you for de-escalating this.
"o salty one" - Here is what Wiktionary has to say about the word "salty":
Adjective
- Tasting of salt.
- Containing salt.
- Template:Lb Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
- Template:Lb Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Template:Lb Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 61:
- Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers.
- 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing, page 162:
- I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 61:
- Template:Lb Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin Template:M instead of the Latin Template:M.
I'll take "experience", though I'm not claiming to be a former, current nor future service-member. I might have to wait before responding to the content of this.