Sentence examples for less politeness from inspiring English sources
Questions were asked about 9 items: you are treated with (i) less politeness, (ii) less respect, (iii) you received poorer service than other people, people act as if they (iv) think you are not smart, (v) are afraid of you, (vi) you are dishonest, (vii) are better than you, (viii) you are called names and (ix) threatened or harassed.
Conversely, they showed how politeness negatively correlated with social status: once elected, the Wikipedia editors became less polite; similarly, high reputation users of Stack Exchange tended to exhibit a less polite linguistic behaviour.
Are people becoming ruder, or is politeness becoming less formal?
There are less obvious ways of marking politeness in English: use a question ("Could you pass the … " instead of "Pass the …"), express some doubt ("I don't suppose you could … ") and apologise, even for small requests ("Sorry to bother you, but …").
They often misuse forms of politeness and are less able to narrate coherently and clearly than people without AS [ 15].
A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... .. Talk Less, Listen More.
In particular, the study focuses on how the interactants' use of place deixis has less to do with spatial orientation than with such contexts as topic resolution and pragmatic politeness phenomena.
Yet he later discovers, to his disquiet, that in the records at least he is less independent than he had hoped: British files list him as having helped SIS, "out of politeness", he is told.
To obtain a discrete variable, we used a logistic regression model and considered a politeness of 1 if the ratio was greater than 1 (more polite comment) and a politeness of 0 if the polite/impolite ratio less than 1 (namely there were more impolite comments).
Most newspapers similarly went for asterisking out the word's second half, although the Guardian and Observer were less prim and the Sindy (asterisks) and Indy (no asterisks) disagreed with each other, no doubt with impeccable politeness.
