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I don't like command language. I find myself instinctively resenting it, and I don't think I'm unique in this regard. It presumes and/or demands acknowledgement of a hierarchy in which you are the low man on the totem pole. It's generally antithetical to respect when you're not literally the person's subordinate already. People have become very comfortable using it too. I don't know when I started noticing it, and maybe it's not so much a phenomenon of growth in the culture so much as it is a growth of personal awareness of it. Nevertheless, it's a great way to start off on the wrong foot with me. I try not to use that language even with people who technically are subordinates to me in my field (which is a tradeoff, by the way.) That being said, sometimes command language is important. It can keep you from accidentally letting your adopted daughter eat your friend's legs, for example. I think of this as "break glass in case of emergency&q
