Hate to break it to you, but it’s an age-old rhetorical technique, to use semi-polite language, to stand in for less-polite language. I’ve been using “pithy” a

Hate to break it to you, but it’s an age-old rhetorical technique, to use semi-polite language, to stand in for less-polite language. I’ve been using “pithy” as a a rhetorical hook for decades. It’s fairly common.