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"When people cease to use manners in everyday social interactions, they are essentially throwing sand into the workings of a machine that has low tolerances for
by 6stringmerc 11y ago
"When people cease to use manners in everyday social interactions, they are essentially throwing sand into the workings of a machine that has low tolerances for friction in the first place." - Paraphrased, can not recall who said/wrote it.
- Nullabillity 11y agoAlternately, when people overuse words like please they lose all meaning.
- arantius 11y agoSee a recent episode of The Allusionist ( http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/please http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/please ) discussing the difference between American and British English, when it comes to the word "please". Brits use it way more than we do. We both think the other is weird (rude, condescending, hoity-toity, etc.) as a result of the difference.