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A polite fiction is a social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or embarrassment. Polite fictions are closely related to euphemism , in which a word or phrase that might be impolite, disagreeable, or offensive is replaced by another word or ...
A polite notice on the side of a bus that reads "please pay as you enter" There is a variety of techniques one can use to seem polite. Some techniques include expressing uncertainty and ambiguity through hedging and indirectness, polite lying or use of euphemisms (which make use of ambiguity as well as connotation).
I don't think this goes far enough. You say you are sorry if you offended the other user, but you don't say what you would do differently in the future and this is at least the fifth time in the last few years that <specific issue identified above> has come up. AnotherReasonableUser 21:56, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
He lists six maxims: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy. The first and second form a pair, as do the third and the fourth. These maxims vary from culture to culture: what may be considered polite in one culture may be strange or downright rude in another.
Etiquette (/ ˈ ɛ t i k ɛ t,-k ɪ t /) is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group.
"Civility costs nothing and buys you everything" ―Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [51] "If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power."
The Fab Five are back — and they look a bit different this time around. Jeremiah Brent, an interior designer and television personality who headlined two HGTV programs with husband Nate Berkus ...
When the Quakers began using thou again in the middle of the century, many people were still aware of the old T–V distinction and responded with derision and physical violence. [ citation needed ] In the 19th century, one aspect of the T–V distinction was restored to some English dialects in the form of a pronoun that expressed friendly ...