Comment author: Locaha 16 August 2013 07:56:50AM 0 points [-]

How many people come to Israeli meetups usually?

Comment author: H0lyD4wg 23 August 2013 09:12:09PM *  0 points [-]

About 14.

Comment author: H0lyD4wg 27 July 2013 07:42:56PM *  0 points [-]

The park is pretty big, so make sure to look at the linked map. The points to the precise location we intend to hold the meetup at. It even has coordinates and a picture of what the location looks like.

To make us even easier to spot, I'll wave my Staff of Conspicuousness.

In response to Ask and Guess
Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 December 2010 01:23:12PM 12 points [-]

In Guess cultures, how much estimation of other people's desires goes on, and how much is following rules about how desires can be expressed? This may vary from one culture to another, and it may be very hard to get an answer to the question.

Do Guess cultures tend to have etiquette creep, where, if going through a ritual is equivalent to making a request (demand), then the ritual must be made more ambiguous?

Comment author: H0lyD4wg 14 July 2013 11:31:42AM 5 points [-]

Does the Euphemism Treadmill fit your idea of etiquette creep? It refers to the process of euphemisms gradually coming to be perceived as no less rude than the expressions they originally replaced, leading to the adoption of shiny new euphemisms to replace them.

It's plausible that etiquette creep is the mechanism by which such cultures became Guess cultures in the first place. The other mechanism I can think of is etiquette arms race: basically, mastery of etiquette is how you signal your social acuity, and if it comes to pass that everyone in your culture knows the rules it becomes neccesary to make them even more complicated so that the signal doesn't lose it's value.