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All skillful people have learnt graciously to accept hideous presents; to comment on appalling dress-sense with tact; to applaud a dire performance. Through irony, wit and inflection it is not difficult to both save face and also give feedback. But you need to know the code. So “We must get together for lunch sometime” is best understood by replacing sometime with never.
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Furnham, A. (2008). Breaking the Code. In: Management Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227439_10
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