I guess the followup question is, where on that scale would you put the threshold for everyday, out-in-public polite conversation between neurotypical adults?
Not enough information. Are the adults male, female or mixed? How much status do they have? What national background? Polite means a very different thing here (Australia) than it does in the US for example.
Yeah, but the scale we’re using isn’t very precise. The variables you mention will move the threshold around, certainly, but not so much that shokwave can’t at least give me a smallish range. We can limit it to modern, Western, and no significant status differences from each other.
Polite means a very different thing here (Australia) than it does in the US for example.
This kind of statement is one of the reasons I consider ‘politeness’ to be an almost irrelevant metric to consider when evaluating people’s statements. The relationship between politeness and social ‘defection’ is utterly negligible.
Not enough information. Are the adults male, female or mixed? How much status do they have? What national background? Polite means a very different thing here (Australia) than it does in the US for example.
Yeah, but the scale we’re using isn’t very precise. The variables you mention will move the threshold around, certainly, but not so much that shokwave can’t at least give me a smallish range. We can limit it to modern, Western, and no significant status differences from each other.
Yeah, I can tell. ;)
This kind of statement is one of the reasons I consider ‘politeness’ to be an almost irrelevant metric to consider when evaluating people’s statements. The relationship between politeness and social ‘defection’ is utterly negligible.