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Re: You Cannot Graciously Accept

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Originally Posted by NShep98 View Post
I understand that precision and accuracy are important, but there are times and places to enforce (not) wording something a specific way, which I personally reserve for tools, measurements, and the like, and not for general speech.
To graciously accept is a bit of an insult to the inviting team. My OED defines gracious as "kind, indulgent and beneficent to inferiors". That's usually nowhere near what the user intends. I can understand referring to a Robertson screwdriver as a square screwdriver or a twist drill as a drill bit as the words could be construed to mean the same thing.
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2003-2015 Founding Mentor FRC 1334 The Red Devils
2011 Woodie Flowers Finalist, Waterloo Regional
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