![]() Please consider joining me in the Return to Gentleness Movement. This is going to make it hard to say I’m sorry.Ĭonsidering how often I mess up, buy cupcakes and apologize, and how nervous I get in the presence of firearms, I’m in the deepest trouble of all. Which brings us to scenes of little old ladies (me, for example) delivering cupcakes to innocently wronged friends only to be confronted by crowds waving Pro-Rudeness signs - and packing heat. The inevitable next step? Those are the same folks who support open carry. ![]() But what if the Honest Nastiness true believers organize? And join forces with random anti-cupcake people? My own true feelings are usually “Geez, I am really, really sorry for that stupid whatever ” nasty hasn’t ever worked for me. I’m particularly worried about ‘Honest Nastiness’ - protest posters for which are probably already in mass production. Some true feelings really might need re-thinking. The bottom line is: courteous people are making the discourteous people mad. The anti-etiquette folks believe our actions “should reflect our true feelings, however offensive they may be.” Or something like that. Don’t Be Glad, Be Mad! (I can think of a lot of others, mostly too impolite to print.) Mass-produced Stand Up for Rudeness! signs. The right to deliver cupcakes when you need to apologize.Ĭonsidering the contentious times we live in, what if a hostile, angry anti-etiquette movement emerges? Protesters showing up at every sickroom door, accusing well-wishers of showing off by bringing cards or bouquets. Not to mention the yellow tulips . . .īut Gentle Reader writes that he or she had been accused of etiquette that was “merely performative.” (Which, Miss Manners notes, is indeed what being polite is all about.) If only I had a nickel for every cupcake apology/thankyou/etc I have delivered over the years. This was because Gentle Reader delivered a cupcake with an apology for a minor misdeed. ![]() Throwing synesthesia into your writing can lend a deeper meaning to your words, and it can connect your reader to your prose in a way that is creative and unique, leaving a lasting impression.A recent Miss Manners column - you DO follow Miss Manners, don’t you? - featured her response to a Gentle Reader who had been called out for being, well, too polite. The long “ a” of the English alphabet has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French “ a” evokes polished ebony. Vladimir Nabokov, the celebrated author of Lolita, was interviewed by the BBC in 1962, and said this about his synesthesia: Keats, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost also use synesthesia in their writing to blend senses and bring out new reactions from their readers. Clearly the sun does not make noise, but the idea of the sun being silent uses the sense of hearing to evoke a sense of despair. Dante used it in his Divine Comedy when he writes about “the region where the sun is silent”. Multiple authors have used synesthesia in their writing. If you've ever talked about cool colors, loud wallpaper, or bitter cold, then you've used synesthesia in your language. We use this technique without realizing it on a regular basis. ITV News of news, health and science editor Emily Morgan, who has died at the age of 45 after a short battle with lung cancer (Image: PA) Our free email updates are the best way to get headlines. The term synesthesia can also apply to a writing technique, in which the writer uses words in a figurative way to evoke reader responses from multiple senses. Of course, she hadn't actually licked the lockers, and I guarantee that they wouldn't taste like fried chicken. I remember one saying that lockers tasted like chicken nuggets. For example, letters and numbers might have colors, or names might have a flavor. A couple of my friends are synesthetes, which means that they experience reactions from more than one sense from the same stimulus.
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