If you’re taking about movement, it refers to movements that are smooth and continuous, making complicated results look effortless to achieve.
If you’re taking about interpersonal relationships, it means one party not taking offence at the actions of the other, or not scroring the wrongdoings of the other. This is closely related to one of the religious uses of the word.
If you’re talking about a timekeeping, a “grace period” is a short time after deadline where good-faith entries will not be counted as late.
If you’re talking about competition, a “grace period” is a portion of the contestant’s performance that will not be scored.
Broadly speaking I would describe it as acting in ways that accept and work with things as they are, rather than resisting the truth of the situation.
Why are we catering to people too lazy to fuckin google the definition of a word?
This is c/NoStupidQuestions, not c/TotallyFuckingStupidAnswer
ers; thank you for grace-ing us with your InputThere is a huge difference between asking a stupid question and being too lazy to type “definition grace” into a search bar and clicking on the first link.
Its almost like its actually more work to go the route of posting a question and engaging with the replies and I knowingly accepted the burden implicit to doing so because I wanted to hear what it means to actual people rather than consulting the authorities on denotation and etymology
You get how thats different, right? That plan would have had way less lip, granted, but I can tolerate a bit of noise to get to the gold. Stories and anecdotes and interaction are often as illuminating if not more so in that context and sometimes I prefer a dialectic over a 1time bag/shag/&skeddaddle.
People might as well ask why not ask ChatGPT so we can automate ourselves out of all that pesky unnecessary community engagemeng or discussion
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