Impoliteness
I meet the opinion that Russians
is are not polite,
that we tell in English roughly, too straight that the things we say in English are too straight, or too blunt.
It That may be so, but it is not because
of the national traits, it's because
of the language. Some polite expressions in Russia sound impolite
ly after literal translation when literally translated into English. For example
, "Do I open the window?" is polite enough in Russian, but it is not appropriate in English. And if I say in Russian
, "Would you mind opening the window?" literally
, it sounds too
much polite, even old-fashioned. It's really very important to know
the rules of polite speech in
another languages
so as not to be confused. But, to be honest, in this case, maybe
it is also something
from to do with national traits - we
are used to express
ing ourselves in a more
straight direct way.
