But I *still* don't think, Mr Gibson, that one would effect an introduction in the 1850s in exactly the same language one would use a hundred and fifty years later. It feels nowhere near polite enough, though I'm damned if I know what you'd say instead. That super-polite level that I only heard now and again, from older women talking about CEOs, maybe. Or maybe it's a level that disappeared with the war and I've never heard it at all.
But I *still* don't think, Mr Gibson, that one would effect an introduction in the 1850s in exactly the same language one would use a hundred and fifty years later. It feels nowhere near polite enough, though I'm damned if I know what you'd say instead. That super-polite level that I only heard now and again, from older women talking about CEOs, maybe. Or maybe it's a level that disappeared with the war and I've never heard it at all.
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There was something on FB about 'you can sneer at millennials all you want but wait till you need to turn a .pdf into a Word doc.' Oh well, one…
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Oh very nice, DW. Open a new tab while writing an entry, come back, entry form is blank, autosave is on, open 'Post an entry' tab, 'restore from…
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Things I never knew: that the valves inside a shower get gunked up with lime and so on and need replacing every decade or so. This is why my shower…
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