On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:15:44 +1100, dorayme wrote:
> Surely, if there was no element of recommendation, ...
Well, now, there's a contrafactual hypothesis, if ever I saw one :-) .
> ... there would hardly
> be a reason to suggest a thing.
Exactly. Try the contrapositive of what you just wrote, for better insight:
I suggested the thing, presumably for some (perhaps hidden) reason, whence
there surely was *some* element (howsoever small) of recommendation.
But I didn't want the suggestion to be taken as an all-out recommendation.
> Why not suggest he goes to a bookshop,
> blindfolds himself, and reach for any book at all? <g>
More reasons than I can shake a stick at. And it doesn't smack of my style.
Why should I chance "he" reach a Joy of Cooking, or a Ramayana, or a Leaves
of Grass, if "he" wants CSS & HTML5? Would you? Cheers etc., -- tlvp