Dragomans softened imperial language in both directions, inflating English courtesy into Ottoman submission

Evidence

It was, it seems, the general practice for the dragomans discreetly to modify the language, making it less imperious and more polite. One may safely assume that they were doing the same thing the other way round, and that when, for example, the Queen wrote to the Sultan expressing good will and friendship, in the Turkish version which reached the Sultan this became loyalty and humble submission. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 193