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I, for one, would greatly respect a person who always speaks in the same way to everyone.

• noir_lord 7y ago
  You would need to see that person communicate in at least two of their communities to begin to respect that person.
  • gdy 7y ago
    Hearing him talking to his boss and to a waiter would be no less informative.
• Retra 7y ago
  I can imagine if such a person actually treated everyone like they were talking to a 2-year-old, you would actually find it disrespectful.
  • gdy 7y ago
    If I had a bounty program for finding vulnerabilities in my statement, you would've won a prize)
• Pfhreak 7y ago
  That's a privilege, unfortunately. It might not be safe for me to drop into queer coded language in a public place, for instance. Or it might not be safe to be publicly out as non-binary somewhere and I can use coded language to signal to others in my community that I'm "on the level", so to speak. And even then, I think it's pretty safe to say that most folks have a professional and personal tone at the least. (I swear a lot less in the office, for example.) I wish it was the case that we could all just be who we want to be all the time, but we have different expectations put upon us in different places and times, and adapting our language is one of the ways that we cope with that.