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Exercise your skills in condescension

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A useful skill, especially in an office environment. If you're a seasoned pro, or just starting out it's always nice to have a few pre-defined phrases for when someone's so not worth your time that wit is redundant. Use these wisely - they're open source, too so modify them if you wish.
 
Had those in an email a few times.

Being condescending is more about the tone and delivery of the comment than the comment itself, anyway. Good effort though son.
 
Gilly said:
Had those in an email a few times.

Being condescending is more about the tone and delivery of the comment than the comment itself, anyway. Good effort though son.
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I'd seen some of those comments a few times as well. I'd agree about the tone and delivery, but I think content can be given a lot more credit as subtlety is a large part of condescension for me. Nice of you to post, though
 
It isn't a problem, but next time you want to post a thread on linguistics and specifically condescension you might want to run it by me first. I'll let you know how it reads.
 
Sic said:
A useful skill, especially in an office environment. If you're a seasoned pro, or just starting out it's always nice to have a few pre-defined phrases for when someone's so not worth your time that wit is redundant. Use these wisely - they're open source, too so modify them if you wish.
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You do know that people are now going to use these against you:p:D
 
Sic said:
A useful skill, especially in an office environment. If you're a seasoned pro, or just starting out it's always nice to have a few pre-defined phrases for when someone's so not worth your time that wit is redundant. Use these wisely - they're open source, too so modify them if you wish.
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This is a repost but I can imagine it's quite hard for someone of your basic functional intelligence to use something as advanced as a search function anyway.
 
I'll be sure to run all new threads by you then - that way we can be sure none of them go over your pretty little head

JohnnyG said:
This is a repost but I can imagine it's quite hard for someone of your basic functional intelligence to use something as advanced as a search function anyway.
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:D

(I did search, but the word condescending comes up so much on this forum - must be the staff)
 
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buddy, pal, mate, son

any term of friendship when you're not really friends with them is a great way to condescend.
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Yeah they're good buddy and pal are quite subversive, "son" or "sonny" can be a bit too obvious.
 
just a shame there's not an equivalent for girls - love works quite well, but it's nowhere near as good as son

daz said:
Yeah they're good buddy and pal are quite subversive, "son" or "sonny" can be a bit too obvious.
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if you do it right, the person won't even spot it! :D
 
Yeah, love is OK but then around here it isn't uncommon to hear it normally.

Pet/petal might work.
 
petal is genius! hahaha, I can just hear you saying that as well! I wish I were northern - being condescending would be so much easier
 
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