Comment by wat10000
1 day ago
Yeah, the examples in the article are terrible. I can be direct when talking to my boss. "My kid is sick, I'm taking the day off" is entirely sufficient.
But it's handy when the recipient is less familiar. When I'm writing to my kid's school's principal about some issue, I can't really say, "Susan's lunch money got stolen. Please address it." There has to be more. And it can be hard knowing what that needs to be, especially for a non-native speaker. LLMs tend to take it too far in the other direction, but you can get it to tone it down, or just take the pieces that you like.
>When I'm writing to my kid's school's principal about some issue, I can't really say, "Susan's lunch money got stolen. Please address it." There has to be more.
Why?
I mean this sincerely. Why is the message you quoted not enough?
Manners. It's just rude if I'm not somewhat close to the person.
I see. It's impolite to be direct? But it's polite to be flowery and avoid what you're actually trying to say?
I don't always _feel_ autistic, but stuff like this reminds me that I'm not normal.
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