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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2005-03-30 12:24 pm
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"I don't want to discuss this topic now" does not mean "Go away, I don't want to talk to you."

[identity profile] catamorphism.livejournal.com 2005-03-30 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
This (http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html) might be relevant...
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[identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com 2005-03-30 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh. That's brilliant, that is. Though I would still add that different parts of the country have different local norms for the strength of their tact filters, and don't necessarily recognize that their standards aren't universal. Thus you get Southerners who believe that everyone in Boston is Very Rude, f'rinstance.