The art of saying “I’m sorry.”
A lot of times when we say we’re sorry, we’re unaware that we’re actually twisting our words to squirm our ways out of guilt, so that the “I’m sorry” isn’t very sorrowful at all. In this great Salon article, the author explains to us how a proper apology works:
Making the if silent does not help. “I’m sorry my killing your frog caused you pain” contains a silent if, because it still implies that your regret is not for the action (killing the frog) but for the suffering it caused (oh, boo hoo), which by implication need not have followed from the action. It implies an argument about the value of the frog, and although you may differ on this subject, an apology is not the time to bring it up. Do you say, “Sorry about your whole family being killed, but, you know, I never liked them”? No.
Perhaps the author should apologize to us about her obsession with frogs. She does mention them a lot.
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