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Topic: Blunt and Direct OR sugared?
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Mon 08/27/12 07:34 AM
Blunt

navygirl's photo
Mon 08/27/12 08:39 AM

In our daily interactions, we are often faced with situations in which we have to choose between saying it as it really is AND being diplomatic about the truth! What's ur normal style?
Are you known to be an off the cuff speaker or a sugar coated diplomat? :-)


Actually; I do a mix between the two. I can say; no I don't sugar coat it but I am diplomatic when I am blunt.

msharmony's photo
Mon 08/27/12 08:44 AM

In our daily interactions, we are often faced with situations in which we have to choose between saying it as it really is AND being diplomatic about the truth! What's ur normal style?
Are you known to be an off the cuff speaker or a sugar coated diplomat? :-)


I treat people as I Want to be treated. I dont like harsh and hurtful words that have no constructive value so I Try not to speak to others in such a way.


This food SUCKS is no more or less honest than saying This food doesnt have much taste, or is too salty, or too sweet

the former is JUST Hurtful, the latter provides some information that can actually be USED for improvement,,,

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Mon 08/27/12 11:34 AM
Sugar coated. But, I'm working on it.

wux's photo
Mon 08/27/12 04:24 PM

Usually blunt. Always honest. Sometimes diplomatic. Occasionally sweet.

But fearsome when the fangs come out.


I am sorry. I can't do it.

I can't vision a tiny ceramic pig with wings on her back, and polka dots on her legs to let her fangs show.

No can do.

:-)

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Tue 08/28/12 07:47 AM

This food SUCKS is no more or less honest than saying This food doesnt have much taste, or is too salty, or too sweet

the former is JUST Hurtful, the latter provides some information that can actually be USED for improvement,,,


"This food sucks" is only hurtful when they say it about YOUR or MY cooking.

But the same thing can be a very positive thought, or expression, if you put it in the proper social context. For instance:

If I have a dish, and I say "dis dish sucks" then it's one of the happiest things I can say, if you think of "dish" or "quite a dish" as a word that was used in the vernacular of gangsters in black-and-white movies in the forties or fifties. (Dillinger, etc.)

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