Recently, another poster noted that the term "rude" was being reinterpreted.

I've now had my own experience with this phenomenon.

I emailed a student, requesting a meeting to discuss some flags of AI use I had noticed in a discussion post. Meeting is a requirement for the academic dishonesty policies we have, and I'm usually fairly vague about the details intentionally---I don't need the student dumping my findings into an LLM to draft a rebuttal. Said student ignored my meeting request and instead asked for me to explain via email. I responded with "No; please make a meeting as requested."

At the end of the meeting, after explaining to them the multiple violations that would likely result in failure in TWO separate courses and possibly a suspension from the university, I asked if they have any questions: "Yes, I have one. Well, it's a criticism really." "Okay, shoot." "Your email was rude." "Oh, that's fine. I prefer to be direct and I'm disinterested in sugar-coating issues of academic dishonesty.…