My aim is to be both polite & clear. Sometimes this gets me called 'condescending.' I want to fix this. How? Add warmth? Change language?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It depends on who is calling you "condescending". Are they intellectually honest people or ideologues?
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Replying to @kirbmarc
Hmm. Doesn't tend to be ppl with well-informed arguments but usually sincere.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Maybe it's a matter of using specific jargon? Sometimes people have called me condescending for being using precise terminology.
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Replying to @kirbmarc
Might be partly because I'm English? Its always Americans who say this. Slight cultural diff in language.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There's an association of UK English with prestige in the US world due to history/sociology/media effect.
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Replying to @kirbmarc
Its very odd coz Europe sees us as cultureless yobs! XD
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Replying to @HPluckrose
In Switzerland you're seen as very highly educated (Oxford/Cambridge)s. Maybe the hooligans is where the stereotype comes from?
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Replying to @kirbmarc
Perhaps I'm associating all of Europe with the French!
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We're associated with the French and the Germans. We're used to it.
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