Topic on User talk:Saline

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

  1. Tasting of salt.
  2. Containing salt.
  3. Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 instead of the Latin .

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.