Hello,
First of all I don’t really get the actual meaning of “please”. I understand it as it used to make a polite request. However I have rarely seen any westerner saying “please” on either Lemmy, Mastodon or IRC. where I live using “please” (मेहरबानी) is used often.
sudo make me a sandwich…please
it’s not so seldom in my experience.
There’s rarely a use for it online. It’s used to make a request, and a lot of online discourse is making statements.
Irl, it’s a lot more common
“Please” is used more in verbal or formal communication in English. I wouldn’t typically use it when writing a comment here as online comment sections are considered informal written communication. But I would always say it if I was asking a food service worker for something.
I say it often in my day to day life. I don’t use it much on Lemmy because I rarely ask anyone to do anything on here
We say it out loud a lot. People seem to remember to be polite when not anonymous.
I rarely use ‘seldom’
Does it really mean anything? If you’re a respectable person isn’t it implied? Thank you as well. People should be able to see the thankfulness… Too many assholes fucked up use of please and thank you trying to look good when they aren’t being good. Now sometimes I see it as a sign someone’s trying to take advantage or hide their true self.
I say it in newer company but I don’t know if I say it to often to people I know.
People say it in person a lot. Another factor might be that some people view it coming across as either non genuine or passive aggressive in written form.
Online discourse tends not to be the kind of place (in the English-speaking world) where “please” is the appropriate response.
I only use it in writing when making direct requests. I say it quite often.
Because the boomers forced us to say it or we got hit and we are through appeasing them.
Not a westerner but after moving to Australia, took me a while to get used to using please. It’s not common where I’m from lol
I just checked, and I used “please” about 30 times in the last year on lemmy.ml. I live in Burgerland.
Did you mean Burgenland? It’s a funny typo.
I meant Burgerland, home of the Whopper and the Big Mac.
I write and speak the word please quite a lot. In all of my emails when requesting things for work or pleasure I use it. I was raised in the US South and I think it’s very common practice here to teach kids in such a way. My own kids are being taught the same. I can’t obviously speak for the rest of Western society though.
