The English language politeness
The English language politeness
I want to teach you some politeness behavior which you have to follow or otherwise it will be clear that you don’t know English.
So lets imagine for a moment that you are to formal meeting, for example tea drinking in Buckingham palace. Queen is going around talks to people and finally comes to your table. Her assistant will introduce you and tell “Your majesty, this is Mr. Bond”, then she will tell you “Hello Mr.Bond, How do you do ?”
The correct answer is “How do you do ?”, the same as the question !
The wrong answer will be anything else, doesn’t matter what. Some people mislead it with the informal question “How are you?”, which will require the informal answer in the style of “I am fine, thank you” or any other.
By the way, just in case you are to Buckingham palace, its not polite to ask Queen of any question, you need to wait till she asks you …
I want to teach you some politeness behavior which you have to follow or otherwise it will be clear that you don’t know English.
So lets imagine for a moment that you are to formal meeting, for example tea drinking in Buckingham palace. Queen is going around talks to people and finally comes to your table. Her assistant will introduce you and tell “Your majesty, this is Mr. Bond”, then she will tell you “Hello Mr.Bond, How do you do ?”
The correct answer is “How do you do ?”, the same as the question !
The wrong answer will be anything else, doesn’t matter what. Some people mislead it with the informal question “How are you?”, which will require the informal answer in the style of “I am fine, thank you” or any other.
By the way, just in case you are to Buckingham palace, its not polite to ask Queen of any question, you need to wait till she asks you …
posted by KGena at 2:26 AM
6 Comments:
Have you been to Buckingham palace?
:-)
but if you answer with "How do you do?" that would mean asking a Queen a question ...???? would it ?
:O)
I personally prefer questions like "Do you respect me?" which sound quite naturally after let say second "half liter"
Queen is allowed to ask me first, polite enough for me.
Kot, the rumours tell that we are going to discuss your question in a near future, can you approve it ? ;-)
Olga switched directon to Rio, so your door handles are safe meanwhile, yet I do have some planes for future...
Привет Ярослав. Посмотри чего я делаю в Ботинке, Спасибо тебе. Дядя Леня Нью_Йорк
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