Strongly endorsed. Related: resist the temptation to be strong...and yet pull back 20% in the final sentence. "As you are three months behind in rent, I need complete payment by the 15th ... if that's convenient" no, No, NO, 𝗡𝗢 https://twitter.com/YesThatVCharles/status/1137545152279523328 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
It's all about the organization. You can be polite, which is what I would want to do in that sentence, without pleading. Do not raise others to unearned positions of superiority above you.
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Replying to @wraithburn @MorlockP
This also makes me think about the scripts of society. We've removed all of the standards for these kinds of things, so the average man has to think it up on the spot. Used to be you had examples everywhere, so you could follow that script. Now all we've got is public school.
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Replying to @wraithburn @MorlockP
Then afterwards, many young men these days are moving several states away. Loses even more of the norms of communication. Without that frame of reference and examples around, they fall back to childhood training and wait for an authority figure.
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Eh, "move several states away" is how we describe the age of sail, the age of pioneers, British foreign service...
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