• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Proper usage of ‘s.

    Guy joined my team a few years ago and uses ‘s for literally everything, and now most of the team does it too.

    It bothers me every time, and I’ve typed corrections into the message box so many times but never hit send.

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      5 months ago

      uses ‘s for literally everything

      literally everything

      literally

      I’ve got news for you.

      Okay, honestly, I do have a choice each day about which tickets I work in which order, and ‘literally’ isn’t the only reason a ticket will be the Very Last one I schedule. There’s also ‘emails’, ‘the ask’, ‘the spend’, and a list of other pathetic Used Car Salesman words.

      And I don’t want to stand in the way of people’s success; especially when they don’t know their nouns from their verbs and are just trying to get through the day before their crayons run out. But people who can use words property will get a bonus of being first.

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        5 months ago

        Lmao, I actually debated whether to say “literally”.

        I typically hate that word too. But I wanted to convey that it’s a constant thing, not a fluke. He thinks it’s a “literary rule”. So using “literally” seemed… “literally” appropriate.