Taking the Guessing out of Etiquette

Gus Van Horn · 15 hours ago · discuss

Aside from the good advice, one of the things I like best about Miss Manners is how well she cuts through the fog to identify an issue, and then communicates that issue and the attendant etiquette effectively.A good example of this is her reply to a self-proclaimed "accent nerd" who wonders if there is a polite way to ask someone Where are you from?(I can both cringe and imagine a younger version of myself doing something like this.)There are, of course, numerous contexts within an existing conversation in which that sort of question is a natural and good part of...