Timeline for Is there a polite and professional way to decline answering personal question?
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| Oct 20, 2022 at 0:26 | comment | added | user1532080 | There you go. Hopefully clearer to future readers! | |
| Oct 20, 2022 at 0:25 | history | edited | user1532080 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Replaced "profane" with "layman" to be clearer.
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| Oct 18, 2022 at 13:49 | comment | added | Cris Luengo | “Layman” is a good word. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 13:48 | comment | added | Cris Luengo | I don’t associate “profane” with “uninitiated”. I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve been using English as a first language for 18 years now. I would guess your average American only knows “profanity” to mean “swear word”, and if they have used the word “profane” they would have used it to describe someone that swears a lot. | |
| Oct 18, 2022 at 11:09 | comment | added | user1532080 | @CrisLuengo I actually checked it before using it ;) I was going more for the "Not admitted into a body of secret knowledge or ritual; uninitiated.", I could have used "uninitiated". Layman? | |
| Oct 17, 2022 at 15:34 | comment | added | Cris Luengo | "profane"? Maybe you mean "naive", "ignorant", "inexperienced", ...? "Profane" means vulgar, or not sacred. | |
| Oct 16, 2022 at 8:57 | comment | added | user10186832 | The OP could list the countries he has lived and worked in, maybe more than two. Turn the question into a positive answer. Travel is character building or so thay say. | |
| Oct 15, 2022 at 4:48 | history | answered | user1532080 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |