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No, you didn’t “reach out”, you CONTACTED them
rsjsouza:
There's a lot of other things that annoy me much more in "modernspeak", such as "you are not wrong", "proactive", "problematic", "misspoke", "systemic", etc.
Some are normal terms, but their recent over use by grifters and weasels ruined many of these for me.
Alex Eisenhut:
Of course, you didn't "contact" anyone either since you didn't literally touch them. You wrote them.
I mean if you're going to electrodacus levels of pedantry.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 19, 2021, 01:13:53 am ---Of course, you didn't "contact" anyone either since you didn't literally touch them. You wrote them.
I mean if you're going to electrodacus levels of pedantry.
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No, if you "wrote them" that would imply they were either a piece of literary fiction or computer software - those are the only ways that I can imagine one could have "written" a person, either as a character, or as a simulation (Like the bot that ends all its 'questions' on here with "I am sure you must agree"). I believe you mean "wrote to them". >:D
eti:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on September 19, 2021, 01:44:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 19, 2021, 01:13:53 am ---Of course, you didn't "contact" anyone either since you didn't literally touch them. You wrote them.
I mean if you're going to electrodacus levels of pedantry.
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No, if you "wrote them" that would imply they were either a piece of literary fiction or computer software - those are the only ways that I can imagine one could have "written" a person, either as a character, or as a simulation (Like the bot that ends all its 'questions' on here with "I am sure you must agree"). I believe you mean "wrote to them". >:D
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Precisely. The world has become polluted by American dumb dumb language.
eti:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on September 19, 2021, 01:13:53 am ---Of course, you didn't "contact" anyone either since you didn't literally touch them. You wrote them.
I mean if you're going to electrodacus levels of pedantry.
--- End quote ---
What you call “pedantry” is what we English term as “correct English”. Since it is our language, and we conceived it, we get to say what is correct or incorrect, end of story.
Americans don’t use English, they use Americanese, which is a very vague approximated derivative - a junk food version of it.
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