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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Generally speaking when someone says No offense, they are about to say something rude and offensive. Now, it's different if it's said after the fact as in "I'm sorry, no offense was meant", but I would suggest that if one finds one's self starting a post with "No offense..." that a real good signal that you either need to rethink how you say it, or not say it at all.
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Perhaps one could also say that when a person says "Generally speaking when someone says..." that person thinks that all the societies, cultures, ideologies, social groups, speakers of regional and social dialects, etc. of the world cast, in general, the same meanings on strings of words in English as they do (or, if intolerant, mean that they should cast the same meaning as them and take offense if possible).
No offense meant
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