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A kinder, gentler message.
Our corporate legal counsel reads my blog, and did once take me aside and comment on one of my posts, suggesting that it could be taken in a couple of ways, both of them bad. He was very polite about it, but I saw his point.
So when he tells me something now I always ask if I can blog this. Today he was telling me about his vacation in France, He was noticing that whenever he saw any kind of sign it was phrased positively, as opposed to a North American tendency to say the same thing in a negative way. For example, where we might say:
Keep off the grass.the French would say:
Please respect the grass.Or where we might say:
No smoking.the French would use the phrase:
Please respect the environment.It's a reflection of a much more refined cultural nuance in Europe, and he just noticed that it was so very different from home.