Good behavior is the only luxury that costs nothing.
The book of the Baron von Knigge "On dealing with people" - the front more than two centuries was written - probably is the most comprehensive book on manners and social etiquette, and it has long Time of the death of its author also had validity. It was the era of political and intellectual revolution has taken such a radical change in taste with that all the conventions that had for centuries validity, to falter and even the good old etiquette is hardly needed. Consideration, tact and courtesy seem to be unfamiliar terms. Sit in crowded transport young people with the greatest peace of mind when the elderly and the disabled are looking for a place, with luggage (without it) laden men encounter other pedestrians blithely aside when they get through otherwise. As if good form and in everyday life in the Scriptures, chivalrous conduct and all the other rules of decency in dealing with our fellow human beings would not be of timeless validity.
who cut his interlocutors the word, or behaving badly at the table is dressed inappropriately, it has, however, difficult in life. Because, whether meeting with the boss, clients, colleagues or friends - still it is the first impression that counts and revise in retrospect can hardly be. Within three seconds to decide whether others react with sympathy or antipathy.
Those who do not make the appropriate effort, without failure, to write grammatically correct articles, review or opinion, is in the eye of the beholder lose value, the content loses its substance, before we have him at all noted. With the use of modern media computer programs contained spelling and hyphenation functions, it is easy for everyone to design an error-free text.
But who should be entitled in addition to the traditional rules, new set up? In my opinion, this task lies solely with the operator and the initiator of the forum. And he has set up a minimalist label, who take to heart every should. On the other hand, the administrator is only reminders to give his best. No one is convicted because of language deficits or laziness, taught or a warning.
In what looks embarrassed at times, a young man when he gets abroad in a company of real gentlemen and ladies! Adolf Freiherr von Knigge
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Again, this text was based on a discussion forum in the Gulf.
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