Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior: Invitations
In the Land of Evite and Facebook, it has become exceedingly unnecessary to send out snail mail invitations but with my preliminary preparation for my first holiday dinner party I've decided to go the traditional route. Normally, I would send out drunken texts to friends offering cheap beer, strip beer pong, and my best Montell Jordan discs to celebrate Turkey Lurkey time.
But I've turned over a new leaf so I'm starting with the basics. In my reading of my gentlemanly bible Miss Manners' Guide, I searched for the basics of invitation etiquette: Do you R.S.V.P. or R.s.v.p.?
The Answer: " R.s.v.p. is correct. It stands for the imperative sentence " Repondez, s'il vois plait." If you were to write this in English, you would put, "Kindly give me an answer." not " Kindly Give Me an Answer." Possibly you would put " KINDLY GIVE ME AN ANSWER!" but Miss Manners does not believe in shouting."
That's right, Miss M.
This Is How We Do It.
But I've turned over a new leaf so I'm starting with the basics. In my reading of my gentlemanly bible Miss Manners' Guide, I searched for the basics of invitation etiquette: Do you R.S.V.P. or R.s.v.p.?
The Answer: " R.s.v.p. is correct. It stands for the imperative sentence " Repondez, s'il vois plait." If you were to write this in English, you would put, "Kindly give me an answer." not " Kindly Give Me an Answer." Possibly you would put " KINDLY GIVE ME AN ANSWER!" but Miss Manners does not believe in shouting."
That's right, Miss M.
This Is How We Do It.
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