From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 06:13:21 MDT
>From: Lee Corbin <lcorbin@ricochet.net>
>Maybe there can be a list of phrases to avoid:
>1. "The flaw in your argument..."
>2. "Perhaps you've noticed..." (when it's something the
> person probably already knows)
>3. "That's a common misperception..." (about what someone
> just wrote)
>4. "*We* believe that ..." (when the speaker could possibly
> be read as belonging to an elite)
>5. "I used to think that too."
>and there are probably many more that can be found examining some
>email exchanges.
Calvin Rutstrum writes in "Paradise Below Zero" that Eskimos use
almost a third person reference, "somebody is hungry", "somebody
has done something wrong", "somebody is not very kind" to avoid
these conflicts.
Brian
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