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Conlangery #94: Face and Politeness

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Negative Politeness Strategies

If you overuse or use too strong a strategy, it might not be effective because first of all, people will be like, what the hell are you talking to me this way? Second, you might, you might exaggerating the actual face threat involved by using an overwrought strategy. And that can go right to making people uncomfortable rather than doing anything useful. So yeah, avoiding disagreement or, you know, hedging things a little bit is quite a way to do this. This is to lessen the impact on someone's negative face, which is again, they're sort of, wait, negative face is want to maintain personal territory of freedom.

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