Try not to offend someone who writes a weekly column.
See Denniston for an earlier variant of this quip: {599546}
Uh' is not an answer.
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.
Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
I just want to be someone whose opinion you entertain for 60 seconds at a time - but I want other people to be more cognitive of time.
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant