What worries Miss Manners more is that part about plain speaking. Everyone claims to prefer it—who would want to be subjected to lies and euphemisms? But the term “plain speaking” itself usually turns out to be a euphemism for insulting others. Miss Manners hopes that is not what you intend.
Miss Manners: Convictions collide with manners : Miss Manners : The Buffalo News (via cleversimon)
What worries me more is that Miss Manners insists on writing in the third person. Whether it’s polite or not, it’s still creepy as fuck.
Reblogged from cleversimon.com
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