I rarely use ‘seldom’

Congrats.

Rusty on my reading of devanagari-- is that pronounced like “meharbaanii”?

Because the boomers forced us to say it or we got hit and we are through appeasing them.

I only use it in writing when making direct requests. I say it quite often.

In Australia in the aboriginal culture I was raised in, there is no word for please. We never used it growing up

We have a ward for thank you mah,

We say thank you but if you have something and can give it and someone asks you are obliged to provide.

In today’s world this causes many problems with money etc though.

it’s not so seldom in my experience.

I say it often in my day to day life. I don’t use it much on Lemmy because I rarely ask anyone to do anything on here

We say it out loud a lot. People seem to remember to be polite when not anonymous.

Does it really mean anything? If you’re a respectable person isn’t it implied? Thank you as well. People should be able to see the thankfulness… Too many assholes fucked up use of please and thank you trying to look good when they aren’t being good. Now sometimes I see it as a sign someone’s trying to take advantage or hide their true self.

I say it in newer company but I don’t know if I say it to often to people I know.

People say it in person a lot. Another factor might be that some people view it coming across as either non genuine or passive aggressive in written form.

Not a westerner but after moving to Australia, took me a while to get used to using please. It’s not common where I’m from lol

I just checked, and I used “please” about 30 times in the last year on lemmy.ml. I live in Burgerland.

where I live using “please” (मेहरबानी) is used often.

Bro where tf are you living 😂

I’m Indian too and have never come across anyone unironically using that word in daily conversations

There’s rarely a use for it online. It’s used to make a request, and a lot of online discourse is making statements.

Irl, it’s a lot more common