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No, you didn’t “reach out”, you CONTACTED them

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eti:

--- Quote from: KaneTW on September 18, 2021, 04:29:01 am ---Don't care. I'll just mirror whatever language the person I'm talking to uses.

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Have you no shame? 🤪

That’s pretty silly. You may like to set a higher standard by steering the person toward a better vocabulary. It’s this sheer laziness that causes the propagation of such piffle in language.

james_s:
There are some things people say that annoys me, but none of it is as annoying as the self appointed language police that rant about it. English is a nearly universal language and there are regional dialects with their own quirks and colloquialisms all over, I don't see what the big deal is.

eti:

--- Quote from: james_s on September 18, 2021, 05:23:57 am ---There are some things people say that annoys me, but none of it is as annoying as the self appointed language police that rant about it. English is a nearly universal language and there are regional dialects with their own quirks and colloquialisms all over, I don't see what the big deal is.

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I didn’t expect you to see, neither will opinion of this daft linguistic subset, alter, based on your views.

You dislike what you broad-brush as “language police”, yet it seems the fact that you want to police thought and opinion, utterly escapes you. I have my views and they’re hardly offensive, so please, if you disagree then okay that’s nice, and a fond farewell I bid you.

tszaboo:
Nah, this is the perfect language to use:
"Thank you for reaching out with this job offer, but the Junior Firmware programmer is not an interesting position for me."

I think they just carpet bomb everyone with these code monkey jobs.

Benta:
A small comment on the topic title here:

"Contact" is not a verb, it's a noun.
Using "contacted them" is WORSE than "reaching out".

Just sayin'.

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