whimperative: the excessively diffident way of getting someone to do something, as in, “I was wondering if you might pass the salt.”
From John Derbyshire’s review of Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
whimperative: the excessively diffident way of getting someone to do something, as in, “I was wondering if you might pass the salt.”
From John Derbyshire’s review of Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
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