what's the meaning of "grab a side rail" in this passage?

This passage was evidently written by an academic trying to make a name for himself, but who should be earnestly discouraged. "propensity to facilitate"? Give me a break.
Good ideas and argument can be clearly and simply put. Obfuscatory verbiage should be eschewed.

When walking, side rails are often found in risky situations such as by steps. They make progress safer and help avoid risks e.g. of falling.

Can you express the same idea in three words?

The explanation of the term 'side rail' is correct as posted above, by way of metaphor.

I would however appreciate the chance to point out that the terms 'hero', 'genetic' and 'charm' in the contexts applicable are merely there for the purposes of explanation and applying weight to them beyond the minimum required for slight comprehension that it can sometimes be somewhat that way... Well I hope you see.

Much in the same way, one might also say the exact same tings the other direction, towards the classifications of 'normalcy' as devised by assorted third parties, applying magnificent weight to the argument in your mind can over bloat the plain truth.



This is merely because the speaker or rather writer, was not expecting the possibility, which existed before he had discovered it.

Also the overwhelming tendency to point out that 'psychopathic' tendencies are to do with the damnable television monster in even documentaries, gets too much, even if one has been whittled to a state of 'low anxiety' through life.. Blaming genetics for that result when a person walks into the psych ward is too easy.

Regards
Dav.

I'll have a go



their tendency to aid conflict resolution.

In an insensate diriment of hermeneutic devolution

"Grab a side rail" is an idiom that means to become energized.

I think that rail is called the 'third rail', Punkey.

I don't mind the language. It is not meant to be, I take it, a paper for Lancet or whatever source is out there now. Yes, it is pompous.

I didn't think it was obfuscatory, and I'm listed as an author on a few papers... just that this descriptive word selection was not in the mode for the most scientific rag reportage.

After I left lab work I went into a design field, and in years later not only specified hand rails but designed them.

Hand rails or side rails are both a hand grab and a steadier, and that can be used metaphorically without being derided.


I got tired of the whole fad of every work note being made simple for the slow, having even had a class on how to do that.

I get tired of self-styled professionals using unnecessarily obscure language to show the rest of us how clever and important they are.

Also, since we evidently cannot agree here on the "grab a handrail" metaphor which the author employs, he has failed in the primary purpose of his paper- to communicate and to explain.

'propensity' and 'tendency' do not say the same thing, McTag. The same applies to 'aid' and 'facilitate'. That's what nuances are all about.

I was close. He wanted it in 3 words. I can do nuance, you know that.

I do know that, Sire. With nuance, close is close but not close enough.

Since you make a point here, this morning I went to the (usually unnecessary) trouble of looking up the precise meaning of the words I suggested, in a good dictionary.

I am please to be able to tell you that I was quite correct.

You could quibble, if quibble you must, over aid, help, facilitate but imho it is not worth quibbling about a gnat's crochet.

I am pleased, that should be.

How come nobody picked up that glaring and unforgivable error?

we're getting so used to EFL posters that we all seem to be doing insta-modifications as we read along