Mine would be : Tact is making your visitors feel at home when you wish they really were.
2006-08-22 08:08:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
The intentional phrasing of language so as to impart truth without imparting harm.
2006-08-22 08:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by Alexander Shannon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a very good definition!
Mine would be: Tact is getting your own way without hurting anyone's feelings or having them realize what you are doing.
2006-08-22 08:33:43 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what happens to a zebra when a lion is hungry. The zebra gets tact by the lion. Woooo Hooooo, 10 points!
2006-08-22 08:15:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bighand 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tact is the art of telling someone something unpleasant in a polite and unobjective manner.
2006-08-22 08:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Something I've never been accused of understanding.
I don't understand why we have to tell people that they're little monsters who are making my time in the supermarket a living hell are wonderfull little angels.
Or why it's OK to see a child wandering around loose in a car & not tell the parents off. I'm the one who'll have to support that child for the rest of it's life after the accident that'll turn it into a parapalegic.
I've never understood why I should let grossly obese people come into my home & tell me about their service in Special Forces while distroying my furniture merely by sitting on it. (Ever notice that 75% of guys who claim military service claim that it was in Specal Forces?) I generally tell 'em to stuff the stories. No one walked down the parachute of another to hook a ride, after their own chute didn't open. That's a James Bond thing. I was in the military & I know people who we indeed in SF, they'd never let themselves become anything near obese. Even in a wheelchair, they're exercising!
Or the people who spent every dime they ever earned on fancy cars & nice apartments & now have no money to retire on. They think that they should be able to get that same apartment for the same rent they paid 20 yrs ago & fast service from the landlord for burnt out light bulbs.
I started saving for my retirement when I was 9 yrs old, I bought apartment buildings to have a secure retirement. I scrimped & saved, I worke d2 & 3 jobs & did w/out to do it. & they want the same retirement as I have. I don't understand why I shouldn't tell them to go "sit on it & rotate".
So, I have no tact. Oh well, I do have a very secure retirement.
2006-08-22 09:01:31 · answer #5 · answered by Fulltime in my RV (I wish) 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Tact is having good manners. It's knowing what to say and what not to say.
2006-08-22 08:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by Mimi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's cute....tact is knowing how to say something difficult while being very sensitive to the feelings of the person that you are speaking to.
2006-08-22 08:25:55 · answer #7 · answered by grl_addict 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tact - is not just saying what you need to say but also what they need to hear.
2006-08-22 08:18:09 · answer #8 · answered by Haynaku 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tact- knowing when to keep your mouth shut, and the proper time to open it up and say something gracefully.
2006-08-22 08:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by rcsanandreas 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being as considerate of others as you wish they would be of you, but seldom are. Putting the "human" back in "being."
2006-08-22 08:15:32 · answer #10 · answered by anna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋