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(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse. -William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style)

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

It's not even the noise that's the worst part. It's that you know you can't scratch your ass without everyone noticing.

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