• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    I remember that asking a co-worker if we should do something, came across as ordering them, and made then very angry.

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      3 months ago

      … A-ha! Yus! So that’s where it comes from… I think I just figured it out.

      All the euphemistic speak, all the corporate speak, all the political speak… all the “nice’ty” (<- the portmanteau of nasty and nice), has trained peoples minds to only hear things like that now, so rife it has been for so long, especially for some, steeped in it all day every day…

      … So however do we get back, out of this newspeak hole? Just carry on defiantly speaking straight forward? We can still mend this.