Imagine the following situation: It’s March 15 th, and Mark, an American manager, is arranging a date for the installation of a powerful new computing system for a Japanese company. With the ...

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This indirectness or, in many cases, refusal to utter out loud what we really mean can be described as an Irish trait, but is it simply a case of us being nice and not wanting to offend others?

Learning the Language of Indirectness. by Andy Molinsky and Melissa Hahn. May 6, 2015 ...