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To: Tax-chick

Please explain the different sort of rude from another kind of rude, if you can. Sincerely.


20 posted on 05/12/2016 11:54:41 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: miss marmelstein

In my opinion, it is rude to insult other people. It is rude if you do it in a cool, “objective” tone. It is rude if you do it with vulgarity and name-calling. It is rude if you do it in such a way that a person reading a transcript “could” understand it as not being insulting, if he tried.

This is an attempt to describe different ways of being rude. An analogy is that shooting, stabbing, and poisoning are different ways of killing.

I hope this gives an idea of what I meant.


27 posted on 05/12/2016 11:59:38 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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