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AMEN, AMEN!!! And do the same servers (what ever happened to waiter/waitress) come up to your table asking "what can I get you guys?"
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Perhaps a bit of courtesy
And is it courteous to willfully misunderstand someone simply because that person's use of the language does not match yours?
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Courtesy begets courtesy. Those who scorn courtesy need not expect to be shown courtesy. Unless one chooses to condescend to the ignorant. Sometimes I do, but sometimes I do not.
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Bean's hunsband: "Can I help you?"
Customer: "I'm looking for...a book..." Yep, it's become a running joke at the bookstore where I work, too... (maybe we know each other?  )
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Courtesy begets courtesy. Those who scorn courtesy need not expect to be shown courtesy. Unless one chooses to condescend to the ignorant. Sometimes I do, but sometimes I do not.Hope I fit in your second category, Dr Bill  in ignorant bliss
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Dear AnnaStrophic: I am not sure how you numbered the categories. Outside of our different views of what is appropriate for Miscellany, and my occasional lapses into ribaldry, I hope I have not given you offense.
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Ha! Until I got to post 20-odd in this thread I started so casually, I thought that the thread might stay on topic. Thanks for ensuring that my expectations of it wobbling off course were met so promptly! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Dr Bill,
I can see I wasn't clear.
Category a) sometimes you condescend to the ignorant.
Category 2) sometimes you don't.
I'm happy to remain in the second category.
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Ha! Until I got to post 20-odd in this thread I started so casually, I thought that the thread might stay on topic. Thanks for ensuring that my expectations of it wobbling off course were met so promptly! Mmm-hmmm! Y'all come back now!
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We're all ignorant about something, Dr. Bill. We all learned our language initially (and at a level that we may even call instinctive) from listening to others using it, in the earliest stages, mostly our parents. If they had used may instead of can in the context of asking permission they wouldn't have had to berate us about our so-called misuse of the terms later. I think that treating a simple request to interrupt one's privacy for the purpose of getting what may well be critical information as a discourtesy is indicative of a greater discourtesy. Think of people's intent and don't hold them to standards that have slipped years ago. I could accept regarding "Hey pops! Tell me something." as being discourteous, but not "Can I ask you a question?"
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