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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think his family was probably upper middle class, not old money rich like the MacDougals, but wealthy. Big probably went to an NYC prep school and had good connections, and got very rich in finance. [/quote]

But would a regular UMC woman come across as patrician as his mother did?

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No. Her voice and manner of speech in this episode portrayed her as UC, and her clothes made her seem possibly a little eccentric but also conservative. "[b]Lovely to meet you.[/b]"[/quote]

Yeah, upper-class people don’t say this. At least the ones of her generation didn’t  IYKYK.[/quote]

Lol enlighten us, fancy person. What do they say?[/quote]

Your tone betrays your insecurity.

They say "How do you do?" or a more contemporary "Hello! How are you?"

Not "It's nice to meet you" or any variation on that. "It's so nice to meet you" is something everyone just says nowadays, but when "How do you do?" was the typical greeting, "It's nice to meet you" was only said under circumstances where you had been waiting to meet a well known person -- for example, if you are Joe Blow and meet Marilyn Monroe, you might say "It's nice to meet you" because it is -- it is nice to meet Marilyn Monroe, it is an exciting privilege to get to meet her; most people want to, but Joe Blow is getting the chance. It is a "nice" thing happening. The same thing was often the case for the rich society families of NYC. People would want to meet, oh, say Babe Paley, because she had power and was a bit of a celebrity. People would be angling to get an invitation to something just so they could meet her. They would say "It's nice to meet you." Babe Paley wouldn't say it back, because, well, it wasn't "nice" to meet the person she is meeting. Not that she wasn't happy to meet the person, not that the person isn't wonderful, not that she thinks she is so much better than than this person -- but because it wouldn't make sense for her to say "Nice to meet you" when she hadn't been anticipating meeting the person. "It's so nice to meet you" is disingenuous if you haven't been the one seeking the introduction. So -- it is "How do you do?"

And then eventually it just kind of morphed into an UC signal. Everyone else was saying "Nice to meet you," but not saying that was an IYKYK. [/quote]

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