Please help, is my co worker being rude?
Hi all. Hope you can help me. This may just be a regional verbal habit but I can't help feel miffed. All my specifically male Indian colleagues tend to preface statements to me with the word "actually". Like I will say "The sky is blue" and they'll come back with "actually, it really is blue" or something like that. In the English I'm used to "actually" means you are correcting someone. And in a bit of a rude way, actually ;) But I swear the rest of the chat etc is not rude at all. Is this a regional kind of verbal tic kind of thing? And the ladies never say it. What's going on here?