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That's American culture expanding to every region. Even in Europe, now everybody is constantly excited to take on their next challenge and thrilled to announce
by bonoboTP 6y ago
That's American culture expanding to every region. Even in Europe, now everybody is constantly excited to take on their next challenge and thrilled to announce something.
I wonder when we get to the point where you must declare you are gasping for breath from the electrifying orgasm that another day in the office of MegaCorp Inc gives you.
- nrvn 6y agoYou nailed it. This jargon is overused and seems to be shared and accepted in nowadays tech announcements everywhere. Just imagine for a moment Linus Torvalds using those words and applying same text structure to the kernel release announcements instead of good straightforward this: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi-u86++np80GQvgDuARdt9xpBNho6SjHLmYgm8jibGag@mail.gmail.com/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi-u86++np80GQvgDuARdt9xp...
- tduberne 6y agoThis might be related to people not having English as their native language and just absorbing whatever formulations they read most. I thought about it, and in English I would say "I am really exited to share some great news", whereas the sentence I would use in French would be better translated as "please allow me to share a good news with you". So american exageration is more an addition than a replacement for my "native personality".