This inquiry debates the results of a survey undertaken to explore conventionalized politeness structures in Hindi\Urdu, with specific focus on the capacity of native speakers to consider politeness as a scalar phenomenon across different utterances vis-à-vis each other. The speakers were provided with utterances that encoded systematic differences in lexical choice (High Perso-Arabic\High Sanskritic\neutral native) and construction choice (suggestion\request\subjunctives, etc.), but nevertheless performed the same act so as to be possible to rank on a politeness scale as realizations of the same speech act. The inquiry centers on the correlation between High\formal registers and politeness as well as the correlation between different grammatical structures and politeness to assert that linguistic structures are conventionalized for possible politeness effects.