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Very practically useful (if you insist on saying these things, at all) but should come with some indication of which culture or (global) industry this advice is tuned to. I think these seem like what I would expect as an American (slightly passive aggressive, offering to “help” just as way to put things in someone else’s court), but for example (as per countless memes) if you were Dutch you might be expected to be more direct, if British even less direct.


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