Date: 25 Aug 2008 11:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] redbird
Further to #5: The person giving the correction might feel that it's important to get the information across quickly. If someone thinks this train is going to the Bronx and it's really going to Brooklyn (or, worse, it's going to Boston and they think it's going to Virginia), I'm more concerned with getting the information across before the doors close and the train leaves the station than with careful phrasing. (That doesn't mean I'll insult them, it means I'll say "No, this is the Boston train" and not "Excuse me, I couldn't help overhearing that you're going to Washington, and this train is heading in the other direction.")

Some people aren't merely correcting transit directions, they're handing out health and safety advice, like "don't touch that downed wire" and "no, you should not mix those two medications."
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