I don’t have direct examples because I suck at googling, but what I saw that made me think of this was an ancient Greek philosopher insulting another, presumably in a rude tone, but still translated to look super polite and old timey. The explanations people have given here have really shed a lot of light for me on why that is though, so it makes sense to me now.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Do you have an example?
Sombyr@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
downpunxx@fedia.io 8 months ago
Yeah, whatdya mean?