What do you understand about to be <em>being </em>a polite person?

 

Polite is one of those things with a relative meaning. For someone who grew up with very old-fashioned parents, they might think to be polite is never being blunt or honest when it means that someone may not like your answer. If you grew up with a very rude household, being polite might nothing to you.

 

To me, being polite means to always give people my best and treat them with kindness (even if I really don't like them). You cannot be polite if you are not humble, and that is something that I always try to be. 

 

What a great question! :D

People with a strange idea of fun might like to cover themselves in mayonnaise and wrestle. Perhaps they prefer to cover their bodies in ketchup and mustard instead. Personally, I only like to put mayonnaise on my sandwiches or with my tuna. :D

In my experience, there is not much of a difference. Perhaps a choice of style, because they are almost identical. I would prefer to use 'entire' when I want to really stress that I am dealing with a lot... With 'whole' I would be stressing that I am using the whole thing, rather than that it is a lot. The issue gets more complicated when you consider the word 'entirety' which is more like the word 'whole'. The short answer: You can get away with using either word almost always... There may be a few cases where everyone uses one or the other, but this is not really a rule (it is more of a style).

http://bit.ly/Nsw9Jo This is a model made from plastic or cement in a zoo. I would call this a statue, a model, or a figure. http://bit.ly/KTx5FH This is a shop that sells snacks, drinks and ice cream. I would call this a vender or a shop. http://bit.ly/Lb4QF1 This building used to be an office but not anymore. No people live there. We would call that dilapidated, abandoned, or uninhabitated. http://bit.ly/K2GBFo I took this picture from a zoo. Traveler can get on this bus or train for free. I have always called this either a trolley or a bus, but there may be other names for this that are more commonly used. http://bit.ly/MjzSw2 I guess it is a thing to control flow of water in the building. You can turn it on and off. That is a water pipe. Since it has those controls on it, I would also call it a shut-off valve.

I would be inclined to agree with you. The history of the subjugation of the native peoples in North America is a long and sad one. There are a few places where you may find truly native people, but generations of access to poor nutrition is causing all sorts of problems for them. For an example, read about the tremendously high rate of diabetes amongst Native Americans in the United States. However, there is also a lot of racial mixing as well. I remember reading somewhere that many native peoples that were too dark in color we not allowed to breed, because certain powerful people wanted the native to be 'more white'. I am a white person in every meaning of the word, but people have told me I could perhaps pass for Puerto Rican if I spoke convincing Spanish. :p

This is a man who is very well known and probably powerful, but he is also strange or a little bit crazy as well. Reminds me of Christian Bale in the movie American Psycho!

There are many idiomatic constructions that do not follow proper rules.. I have noticed things like this in Spanish a lot. There are also regional slang usages that are completely incorrect in terms of grammar. The important thing about grammar is to learn general rules with it. Once you are there, I would say not to stress so much abour grammar. Remember, languages are not just a science... They are also an art. What I mean is that there is a lot more there than simply a bunch of rules. : )