Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 10/7/2023 - eviltoast

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So how’s it going?

  • flashmedallion@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Having been on the receiving end of it from two people professionally, wracking my brains over what their problem was, until I learned how they were actually meaning it:

    The trailing ellipses feels like it’s ‘politely’ avoiding saying the “obvious” conclusion out loud. And if someones avoiding saying it, it’s probably negative. That’s why it’s seen as passive-aggressive.

    To my generation it sounds like, I dunno, saying “Where there’s smoke…”.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      1 year ago

      Are you in the younger than normal or older than normal generation?

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          1 year ago

          Ok good to know! I tend to avoid … in work emails because I know it can be taken in different ways, I should probably avoid it in other online posts too…