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[–] -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You won't find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.

Search for these strings and let's talk.

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  • literally
  • (his|her|their|the) emails
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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I use literally. It's a useful word. If someone complains about a use case of a tool, and that use case is literally the intended use case, it conveys how inappropriate their complaint is.

    Never heard of those last two though.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Literally's absolutely over-used, and usually used wrongly. I think we've lost our collective memory of Valley Girl Dialect -- so grody.

    "The ask" and "the spend" are a newer bit of scumbag coke-addled salesman dialect that has crept out into the light. Someone will ask "what was the ask on this?" where they mean to ask what the request or question was. Similarly, salesman use "the spend" in place of "the invoice" or "the budget".

    It's like when "do lunch" or "action this" was used unironically.

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