It joins ‘the ask’ and ‘the spend’ and ‘action this’ as words people use to sound trendy and smart. It’s the surest sign someone went from Used Cars to I.T sales in their career, and should be heard with similar mistrust.
If your peers use these - heck, if they use ‘emails’, pluralizing the mass noun - just laugh at them like you got their absurdist attempt to lampoon one of these people so they can learn how ridiculous they sound. Help your friends.
The person I am replying to has a consistent history of snobbish prescriptivism and disrespect for anyone who doesn’t follow what they think is the correct version of the rules of life.
I’ve seen this attitude before, especially with how things are pronounced, like saying “Ess Cue Ell” instead of “Sequel” means that you don’t really know SQL. Or saying “Enn Jinx” instead of “Engine X” means you don’t have real experience with Nginx. It’s just nonsense.
Exactly this. Used to work in for profit corporate offices and this was my experience for nearly two decades. The imbeciles trying to sound important used trendy corpo speak and got nothing else done timely or well.
Since you’re ignoring me, here’s some bait: what’s your specific citation for your prescriptivist rule that “email” is a singular and plural noun by divine definition?
It joins ‘the ask’ and ‘the spend’ and ‘action this’ as words people use to sound trendy and smart. It’s the surest sign someone went from Used Cars to I.T sales in their career, and should be heard with similar mistrust.
If your peers use these - heck, if they use ‘emails’, pluralizing the mass noun - just laugh at them like you got their absurdist attempt to lampoon one of these people so they can learn how ridiculous they sound. Help your friends.
You really, unironically, say “I received 10 email today” and think it’s other people who sound stupid?
Lol imagine judging others’ competency from insignificant grammatical nitpicks that you’re not even correct about… ironic!
The person I am replying to has a consistent history of snobbish prescriptivism and disrespect for anyone who doesn’t follow what they think is the correct version of the rules of life.
I’ve seen this attitude before, especially with how things are pronounced, like saying “Ess Cue Ell” instead of “Sequel” means that you don’t really know SQL. Or saying “Enn Jinx” instead of “Engine X” means you don’t have real experience with Nginx. It’s just nonsense.
Agreed.
I do my part by pronouncing each acronym differently than my immediate peers.
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Exactly this. Used to work in for profit corporate offices and this was my experience for nearly two decades. The imbeciles trying to sound important used trendy corpo speak and got nothing else done timely or well.
Since you’re ignoring me, here’s some bait: what’s your specific citation for your prescriptivist rule that “email” is a singular and plural noun by divine definition?
It’s like regular mail, but with an e in front, you know?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun
I’m familiar with the concept. What academic resource (thats really important to the prescriptivist I’m talking to) considers email a mass noun?