Techniques thumb|A polite notice on the side of a bus that reads "please pay as you enter" There is a variety of techniques one can use to seem polite. Some techniques include expressing uncertainty and ambiguity through hedging and indirectness, polite lying or use of euphemisms (which make use of ambiguity as well as connotation).
Tech.niques thumb|A polite notice on the side of a bus that reads "please pay as you enter" There is a variety of techniques one can use to seem polite. Some techniques includ?e expressing uncertainty a.nd ambiguity through hedging and indirectness, polite lying or use of euphemisms (which make use of ambiguity as we!ll as connotation).