[Panel] politeness and rudeness

[Kathleen Patton]

On the other hand, cats have their own ideas about socially correct
behavior. There is probably a cat version of "rudeness" and
"politeness", unknown to us humanss. 

At any rate, in translating Alice, there are all sorts of characters in
the story which are not human, or even what we generally consider alive.
For example, talking playing cards.  So "action" might be more accurate
than "behavior" (correct + action), in this context. But using both
"behavior" and "action" would be redundant.   

On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 09:23 +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2013, at 01:20, Kathleen Patton <kpatton at showme.net> wrote:
> 
> > True, but using your previous example of cats: If a judgment is made
> > about a cat's behaviour, and we do no specify that it is a human
> > judgment, how do we know it isn't about what the cat is thinking?  They
> > do have their own minds.  
> 
> I wouldn’t use the word polite/impolite when talking about cats as it doesn’t apply.
> 
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
> 
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