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Did you mean to write 'Facebook gets a lot of flack'? That would seem to make more sense given the rest of the sentence.
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Did you mean to write 'Facebook gets a lot of flack'? That would seem to make more sense given the rest of the sentence.
- qnsi 8y agoSorry! Not my first language
- croisillon 8y agoi wondered about it too, i imagine it comes from "cut me some slack" = "cut the criticism", hence slack=criticism
- np_tedious 8y agoIn this context, "slack" and "flak"/"flack" are opposites
- AgentME 8y agoIn the phrase "cut me some slack", the speaker is asking for more slack. It's like "give me a slice of meat" or "cut some meat for me".
- croisillon 8y agoooooooh :) I learned something thank you!
- umvi 8y agoAlso, it's "flak" (shortened form of German word for anti aircraft cannon) not "flack".
- RandomInteger4 8y agophlaque
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoSome dictionaries seem to have me believe either is correct. You’re right as far as the origin goes though.
- asark 8y agoThe most correct is the one least likely to cause confusion... or kick off a thread like this :-) Probably "flak", then.