The usage of "Sir" - politeness or submission?

[oyasumi]

His rubbish is bollocks.

[Saul]

Some Russians say :  'exqueeze me' instead of excuse me...I guess that its their version of the Blacks' usage of 'I axed him' instead of ' I asked him'.

[DavidW]

Some Russians say :  'exqueeze me' instead of excuse me...I guess that its their version of the Blacks' usage of 'I axed him' instead of ' I asked him'.

Some Russians speak Russian instead.  So you think that Russians talk like Jar-Jar Binks?  Congrats on another useless vaguely insulting post.

[MN Dave]

Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder?

[Scarpia]

Some Russians say :  'exqueeze me' instead of excuse me...I guess that its their version of the Blacks' usage of 'I axed him' instead of ' I asked him'.

Maybe you should start a "offensive racial stereotype" thread where we can discuss this farther. 

[Wendell_E]

Some Russians say :  'exqueeze me' instead of excuse me...I guess that its their version of the Blacks' usage of 'I axed him' instead of ' I asked him'.

Some Americans also say 'exqueeze me'.  And my white Geometry teacher used 'axed' all the time. 

[Grazioso]

Edit: Not sure if "submission" is what I mean. I mean Unterwerfung.

"Deference" might better fit the bill. The irony, to my mind, is that while addressing someone as "Sir" might be perceived by some as overly deferential, it can actually be a way for the speaker to subtly assert a higher social status since, as others have noted, such usage bespeaks "better breeding." I.e., in some American cultural circles, only educated, well-mannered folks would ever bother to use that term of address. 

[Saul]

Some Russians speak Russian instead.  So you think that Russians talk like Jar-Jar Binks?  Congrats on another useless vaguely insulting post.

lOOks like someone here can't take a joke.

[greg]

Maybe you should start a "offensive racial stereotype" thread where we can discuss this farther.

That would actually be fun...
(though we'd have to exclude people who are racist from posting there)

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

It appears your rejection has been rejected.   

I reject the rejection rejection due to lack of an honorary title of the rejection rejector.

[snyprrr]

I say "exsqueeze me",... it comes from Wayne's World.

Party time.








Excellent.