It's more the English style of understatement. The best thing ever in the history of the world, the most fantastic thing that ever happened is likely to be described as 'well yes, it was quite nice'. We just don't do effusive.
It's really rather embarrassing if we feel moved to more emotional display than that, it's not that we don't feel it, it's just bad form to say it out loud.
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Date: 2012-07-27 08:31 am (UTC)It's really rather embarrassing if we feel moved to more emotional display than that, it's not that we don't feel it, it's just bad form to say it out loud.