Comment on Why does “come here” bother me so much?
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 10 months ago
“Come here” feels unnecessarily directive to me. Like you, I’d be annoyed too if someone tried demanding my presence like that. You’re not his to command.
My wife and I, if we want the other to see something, usually just say “Hey babe - check this out”, and the other feels comfortable saying “Hang on” if they’re doing something else. If it has some urgency, we’ll add context: “Hey babe - come see what this idiot’s doing in his car out the front”. If what we want to show is portable (eg. a video on our phone) then we go to them.
Next time, I’d just respond with “What is it?”.
ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 10 months ago
That’s literally the same thing
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 10 months ago
Nah, not really, but I get that it’s hard to infer tone in a written post.
Burnt@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I’ve been told just today that tone isn’t hard to infer from text and people who use tone markers are dumb. /s