table pragmatics

[trochee]

I've just bought a new dining room table and matching chairs. I feel so gentrified. It was a bit of an ordeal, because the total was really astonishingly high.

anyway, I'm only writing about it because of the interesting locution that the gentleman who took my credit card had:

Hello, Macy's furniture, this is Rogelio! How may I provide you outstanding service today?

I can't tell what pragmatics rule this violates, but it seems to be startlingly off somehow.

Perhaps it's some kind of double-ironic Griceian toe-pick, intended to encode the phrase fuck you, I don't even know you, strictly by the mechanism of superfluity.

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

wow. that's an amazing bit of doublespeak, combined with null-think.

I hate that Qwest does the same thing (well, the "thank you for choosing Qwest") in Seattle. In what way did I choose? It's a frickin monopoly!