Disagreeing with the &#x27;politeness&#x27; assessment of some of these words... type in &#x27;Howdy&#x27; and the only &quot;polite&quot; words are &quot;Welcome&quot; and &quot;Goodbye&quot;.<p>More troubling to me is that this feels more like one person trying to impose their definition of &quot;polite&quot; onto others, and many of the suggestions seem result in speech that is weak, weasel-y, or lacking a feeling of weight.