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More true to say 'it is no longer possible to say polite things.'

• sabat 17y ago
  Black-and-white fallacy, isn't all this? Because people can use polite words to suggest less-than-polite things doesn't automatically mean you can't be polite. Your intentions will come through, regardless of the actual words you employ.
  • eof 17y ago
    You're right as well. Perhaps 'more true' wasn't sufficient. I basically was trying to express your same sentiment that politeness wasn't contained in the words used, while granting the author's assumption that words traditionally intended to be polite had been co-opted and therefore couldn't be unambiguously used to convey politeness by themselves.