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irmoz@reddthat.com 11 months agoShe said: “I was wondering if it would be possible to perhaps make a request that members of departments think about their communication to councillors a little bit better. "
This is also peak Britishness. The amount of hedging in that sentence. It’s so indirect it almost misses.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From the other side of the pond, I find this tendency for understatement impressive. If anything, it gives one more headroom for expression. If understatement is “normal”, and direct statements are a kind of exaggeration, then overstatement must be a whole other tier we don’t even have in the US: we have to say that part louder, instead.