"I'm not sure how you might go about learning it now, unfortunately. Did you mean it, when you said please and thank you? That might help."

"............Zane-la said it was a 'speech act' for politeness, which means that if I say it, I am being polite.  He taught me about lies but I don't think a speech act can be a lie because you do the politeness when you say it."

"'Thank you' is not a statement, so I guess it can't be a lie, but you can still mean it or not."

"I don't know what it means."

"That you appreciate that someone did something for you."

"People do say thank you without meaning it, it just might be a shortcut to sounding polite if you were saying it sincerely."

"That isn't how Zane-la explained it."

"We are from different places."

"Why haven't you been saying the 'please and' part."

"It would be a lot of extra words to go through both examples for every point."

"What do you mean both examples."

"Please is one and thank you is the other."

"I thought it was one thing to say.  What does please mean?"

"That you're making a request rather than a demand."

She puzzles about this for a moment.

"But then I might not get what I want."

"I don't know how exactly things are set up around here. But in normal situations people will choose not to give you things specifically because you demand them instead of asking nicely, if you do. Even though asking nicely also doesn't always work."

"That's perverse."

"...not really."

"It has to be, or I wouldn't have said it.  I didn't have a language before this."

"...I don't think that makes you smarter."

"I didn't say it made me smarter.  It means I don't use words wrong."

"I wasn't talking about the word."

"Then I don't know what you meant."

"It's not perverse that if you're unpleasant people won't want to do things for you!"