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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Agentic, I fucking hate this word.

It joins 'the ask' and 'the spend' and 'action this' as words people use to sound trendy and smart. It's the surest sign someone went from Used Cars to I.T sales in their career, and should be heard with similar mistrust.

If your peers use these - heck, if they use 'emails', pluralizing the mass noun - just laugh at them like you got their absurdist attempt to lampoon one of these people so they can learn how ridiculous they sound. Help your friends.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You really, unironically, say “I received 10 email today” and think it’s other people who sound stupid?

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Lol imagine judging others' competency from insignificant grammatical nitpicks that you're not even correct about... ironic!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The person I am replying to has a consistent history of snobbish prescriptivism and disrespect for anyone who doesn’t follow what they think is the correct version of the rules of life.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I've seen this attitude before, especially with how things are pronounced, like saying "Ess Cue Ell" instead of "Sequel" means that you don't really know SQL. Or saying "Enn Jinx" instead of "Engine X" means you don't have real experience with Nginx. It's just nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Since you’re ignoring me, here’s some bait: what’s your specific citation for your prescriptivist rule that “email” is a singular and plural noun by divine definition?

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