See, that’s the thing- the dance isn’t the important part. I already did the dance with “I don’t think that’s the word you want to use.” lionhearted’s absolutely correct point is doing the correction in public is the “look at me” option and correcting him in private would have been the polite option, regardless of how much dancing went on in either. Unless people are thick-skinned by intention or ignorance, they notice when you take the impolite option.
See, that’s the thing- the dance isn’t the important part. I already did the dance with “I don’t think that’s the word you want to use.” lionhearted’s absolutely correct point is doing the correction in public is the “look at me” option and correcting him in private would have been the polite option, regardless of how much dancing went on in either. Unless people are thick-skinned by intention or ignorance, they notice when you take the impolite option.