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Speaker 1: Brain with today's question, what does rs VP mean? Rs
Speaker 1: VP stands for a French phrase respond a cbo play,
Speaker 1: which means please reply. The person sending the invitation would
Speaker 1: like you to tell him or her whether you accept
Speaker 1: or decline the invitation, that is, will you be coming
Speaker 1: to the event or not. Etiquette rules followed in most
Speaker 1: Western cultures require that if you receive a formal, written invitation,
Speaker 1: you should reply promptly, perhaps that same day. For hosts
Speaker 1: who are planning a dinner party, a wedding, or a reception,
Speaker 1: this is important from their point of view because they
Speaker 1: need to know how many people to count on and
Speaker 1: how much food to buy. More important, though, is the
Speaker 1: simple courtesy of responding to someone who is nice enough
Speaker 1: to invite you, even if it's to say that you
Speaker 1: regret that you won't be able to attend. Many wedding
Speaker 1: invitations come with a response card that you can mail
Speaker 1: back right away. Other written invitations will carry the host
Speaker 1: telephone number, so you can call with your reply. Although
Speaker 1: under strict etiquette rules are written invitation requires a written reply. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: invitations often carry a regrets only notation at the end.
Speaker 1: That means that the host will count on your being
Speaker 1: there unless you tell him or her otherwise. Some people
Speaker 1: even use r s v P as a verb, as
Speaker 1: in have you rs VP to that invitation? Yet, you
Speaker 1: might wonder why we used the initials of a French
Speaker 1: phrase and an invitation that's written in English. You could
Speaker 1: say that the French invented etiquette, although that would be
Speaker 1: a simplification because there have always been rules to follow
Speaker 1: in civilization. In fact, an Italian diplomat wrote the first
Speaker 1: book about proper Behavior among nobility in the sixteenth century.
Speaker 1: Many of the practices of Western etiquette, however, came from
Speaker 1: the French court of King Louis the fourteenth in the
Speaker 1: late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries at Versailles his palace.
Speaker 1: Louis the fourteenth had rules for court behavior written on
Speaker 1: what French referred to as tickets. Get it tickets etiquette.
Speaker 1: The tickets either were signs posted at Versailles or were
Speaker 1: the invitations issued to court events with the rules of
Speaker 1: behavior printed on the back. Experts give different versions of
Speaker 1: the origin, and French was the language of refinement and
Speaker 1: high society through the nineteenth century in the United States.
Speaker 1: Judith Martin, the author of etiquette books and a syndicated
Speaker 1: newspaper columnists known as Missmanners. Thanks that rs VP came
Speaker 1: about is a polite way of reminding people of something
Speaker 1: that they should already know. If you receive an invitation,
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