10-26-2011, 05:45 PM
(10-26-2011, 05:37 PM)Namaste Wrote: You are an intelligent person Unity, I do not believe (and I could be projecting here) that you have missed both my own, and Steve's notions. If you wish to ignore, or step around said messages, by all means do.
Peace :¬)
i did not miss anyone's notions.
i just not only dont agree, but also do not understand the forced fakery of making a person who is wrong in something feel as if s/he is not wrong, and then underhandedly telling them that they are wrong, for purposes of being politically correct or polite. if some bit of information is wrong, you just state that it is wrong. its as simple as that.
thats something i have only seen in american contemporary culture. i didnt see it in german, japanese, greek, japanese, italian cultures and many others. leave aside my culture. one of the most polite ways of rejecting what someone else says, is actually saying 'you are wrong' here, as long as plural is used. if the person is in an informal setting, you can use singular even.
some languages like japanese dont even have words to effect that fakery. you directly say that the person is wrong, or in actually many cases, you say just one word.
there is nothing rude about telling someone 'you are wrong'. i dont even understand americans' fixation with this.