If you use it insincerely, your listener may hear it as an insult. If you mean 'with all due respect' sincerely, your listener may hear it as a polite formula rather than a statement of genuine respect. But, as the definition you quote says, it's a polite formula. Indeed, people do often use it in a way that follows the dictionary definition. And again - and I understand that this is possibly controversial - I don't understand why some people are upset about this phrase given the dictionary definition and lack of context if we're having a neutral discussion about it yet then allow themselves to insult those who use the phrase - without caveats.Ĭontext is key, it seems to me. speaking people in general.įurther more, I really do get the sense that this is yet another instance where people who dislike it when someone disagrees with them will take a glass-half-empty view of the phrase and assume it is an insult. It seems to me that the interpretation of this phrase seems entirely contextual at least in the US and among non-B.E. It indicates in the first case simply understanding what the person you're disagreeing with is saying, in the second it's just stating a different opinion, and in the last an added view or fact in neither of those is it as clear as saying "with respect" or "with all due respect" which clearly indicates "I respectfully disagree". But the above actually doesn't indicate respect at all.
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